On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:16:34AM -0500, Gabriel Ricard wrote: > Has anyone investigated gzip transport encoding at all? > > I played around with the rlreturnz stuff and it's nice and it works, > but my main problem with gzip encoded content is that the browser waits > until it's downloaded the entire file before it decompresses the data > and begins rendering the page. A side-effect is that it makes pages > appear to take longer to load, even though they take less time to > download. Of course it depends on the content that was compressed in
My experience is quite the opposite. With gzip encoding I get broadband-like speeds from dial-up connections. -Roberto -- +----| Roberto Mello - http://www.brasileiro.net/ |------+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State University + + USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club - http://fslc.usu.edu/ + Insert New Disk for Drive C: Press ENTER when ready.
