Content Encoding is used when transporting compressed files using HTTP, this configuration set registers means of dealing with these files.

Using this allows handling of the HTTP Content-Encoding tag in order to summarise compressed files which are flagged as such by the web server. The arguments are a list of tag module pairs

Gzip

Handle the "gzip" content encoding method, for ".gz." files.

The HTTP/1.1 spec says that the following tags may be used to signal this encoding method:

• gzip
• x-gzip