idicator for compressed connections

[Markus Staab]

Compressing javascript,css,html,json content with gzip or deflate is an important topic when optimizing websites.

we sometimes got the problem, that e.g. apache optimizes javascripts served with application/javascript content type, but not x-application/javascript etc.

because we tend to use libraries for a lot of things we cannot define the content-type which is used everywhere, but we rely on the defaults.

therefore the same page serves javascripts sometimes with different content-types.

I propose that firebug should show an indicator in the net-panel when a resource is served in a compressed way, so we one doesn't need to click each entry to check the http headers one by one.

firebug could e.g. show something like "http+gzip" or "http+deflate" etc. in the procotol column.

what do you think?

[Sebastian Zartner]

Issue 2949 describes a way how to get to know about whether a response was gzipped.
You may want to post a comment there (plus a backlink to this discussion thread).

Sebastian