Hi Wesley, The problem is shown in Google Webmaster Tools, not my browser. In Webmaster Tools (labs -> site performance) it shows ways that you can speed up your site. This includes telling you if GZip isn't enabled. I can't check what headers GoogleBot/Webmaster Tools (?) are sending, but I imagine if they're checking for GZip, they're sending headers to say they support it (though exactly what, I can't say).
If it's just a case of App Engine not understanding that GoogleBot supports GZip properly, then it's not a big issue (since it'll still be zipped for visitors), but it would be nice to confirm that. Is it possible you can contact the person/people that worked on the Google Webmaster Tools Labs / page speed tool to verify? I don't think our App Engine logs have enough info to diagnose the problem (short of adding code that checks for GoogleBot and logs the headers, but I'm sure you can find that out faster working for Google ;-)) Danny On Jan 20, 3:21 am, "Wesley Chun (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote: > yes, App Engine should be compressing, as outlined > here:http://code.google.com/appengine/kb/general.html#compression > > most browsers are recognized and compressed data returned... just > confirm your response headers. below are one example of request and > response headers (with FF3 as the client): > > REQUEST > > User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv: > 1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032608 Firefox/3.0.8 GTB6 > Accept text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 > Accept-Language en-us,en;q=0.5 > Accept-Encoding gzip,deflate > > RESPONSE > > Content-Type text/plain > Cache-Control public, max-age=0 > Content-Encoding gzip > Date Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:37:23 GMT > Server Google Frontend > Content-Length 1571 > > what do your headers show? > > thanks, > -- wesley > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > "Core Python Programming", Prentice Hall, (c)2007,2001 > "Python Fundamentals", Prentice Hall, (c)2009 > http://corepython.com > > wesley.j.chun :: [email protected] > developer relations :: google app engine
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