2010/1/21 Danny Tuppeny <[email protected]>: > 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,
Use 'View as Googlebot' ? (its also in labs) > 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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > > >
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