doc the addencoding mess

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This will cause files ending in .gz to be marked as encoded using the x-gzip

encoding, and .Z files to be marked as encoded with x-compress.<P><HR>

encoding, and .Z files to be marked as encoded with x-compress.<P>

Old clients expect <code>x-gzip</code> and <code>x-compress</code>,

however the standard dictates that they're equivalent to <code>gzip</code>

and <code>compress</code> respectively.  Apache does content encoding

comparisons by ignoring any leading <code>x-</code>.  When responding

with an encoding Apache will use whatever form (i.e. <code>x-foo</code>

or <code>foo</code>) the client requested.  If the client didn't

specifically request a particular form Apache will use the form given by

the <code>AddEncoding</code> directive.  To make this long story short,

you should always use <code>x-gzip</code> and <code>x-compress</code>

for these two specific encodings.  More recent encodings, such as

<code>deflate</code> should be specified without the <code>x-</code>.

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