Yup, I'd agree with Peter on this one, from a practical standpoint. Reducing spaces might be an interesting thesis topic, but the result would not have much practical use.
I'll also point out that Apache 2.0 includes mod_deflate which is a solution similar to mod_gzip (still not quite sure on how they compare, technically). Cheers, -g On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:54:11PM -0600, Peter J. Cranstone wrote: > Fabio, > > Mod_gzip for Apache is a better solution. Prior to it's release both > Kevin and I looked at what we call "poor man's compression". I.e. just > removing the blank spaces, lines and other garbage in a served page. > > Here was what we learned. > > No one was interested. It didn't save much on the overall page, and > people really don't like their HTML etc being messed with. > > Also it's easier if you are going to spend the CPU cycles to simply use > gzip compression to squeeze the page by upwards of 80%+ and save all the > formatting to the Author's HTML > > Mod_gzip already saves a ton of bandwidth and with a current browser > there is no need to install a client side decoder. > > Regards, > > > Peter J. Cranstone > > > -----Original Message----- > From: fabio rohrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 6:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: mod_blanks > > I'm going to develop this topic for thesis. > Has anybody of you any suggest for it? Something to > addin the development (like compression of the string > ) or some feature to implement! > > And, the last thing, what do you think about it? > > Thanks a lot, > Fabio > > - mod_blanks: a module for the Apache web server which > would on-the-fly > remove unnecessary blank space, comments and other > non-interesting > things from the served page. Skills needed: the C > langugae, a bit of > text parsing techniques, HTML, learn Apache API. > Complexity: low to > moderate (after learning the API). Usefulness: > moderate to low (but > maybe better than that, it's a kind of nice toy topic > that could be > shown to save a lot of bandwith on the Internet :-). > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Mio Yahoo!: personalizza Yahoo! come piace a te > http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.my.yahoo.com/ -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
