>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 > > IIRC telephone-modems do this already. They send the page compressed over the phone-wire. But seeing that you are paying for the link between apache and the net i definitly understand it why you want it. ___________________________________________________ GO.com Mail Get Your Free, Private E-mail at http://mail.go.com
