Franck Martin wrote:
> http://www.remotecommunications.com/apache/mod_gzip/
>
> Can someone add it into cooker?
>
> NEW mod_gzip v 1.3.14.6e - 12/04/00 that can compress both STATIC and
> DYNAMIC output for both external CGI and 'mod_xxxx' Apache module output
> is now available.
>
> Other 'new' features include SSI ( Server Side Include ) compression
> support, alternate 'include' file option(s), complete Location, Directory
> and Virtual
> Host support, and other options/fixes. See the WHATSNEW file link below for
> more information.
>
> Linux and Win32 pre-compiled binaries are already available as well the
> complete source code. All PHP dynamic output ( when used as CGI ) is still
> fully
> compressed and as well as all CGI such as Perl, Zope, EXE, compiled 'C',
> mod_perl, mod_php, etc.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To understand the gain in bandwidth just try this URL:
http://12.17.228.52:7000/
This will rate your browser capabilities to handle compressed HTML and the
speed gain from it.
For a mainly text web site the gain is between 4x to 5x...
Here is the article from the w3c that explain the advantages to enable
compression on web server against the increase of CPU load.
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Performance/Pipeline.html
"The addition of transport compression in HTTP/1.1 provided the largest
bandwidth savings,
followed by style sheets, and finally image format conversion, for our test
page. "
Another article about compression:
http://webreference.com/internet/software/servers/http/compression/
If mod_gzip were by default configured with apache, it would make Mandrake the
fastest web server distribution. Remember the last Internet mile is often
28.8kbps modem. Any compression scheme is welcomed.
Any volunter to add this module into cooker?
If nobody, I will test and report...
Cheers
Franck
