<Files *.*> SetOutputFilter DEFLATE </files> IS THAT CORRECT?

[tarr74]

Hi,
is it correct to put this in the .htaccess?

<Files *.*>

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE

</Files>

All the online guides tell to do something like

<Files *.html>
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
</Files>

and then

<Files *.php>
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
</Files>

and so on for every extesnion.

Is the

<Files *.*>

solution correct?

[jdMorgan]

There's no good reason to waste CPU time trying to compress filetypes such as .jpg, .jpeg, and .png, since these are likely the most-often-requested files AND they are already in compressed format.

So, no <Files *.*> is not a good solution to the real problem.

I would suggest using <FilesMatch "\.(html?|php|css|js)$"> as a start, to compress only filetypes that can actually be made smaller by the compression...

Jim