Leo wrote: > Hello all: > > I want to use Compress::Zlib to deflate contents being sent to the client. > > One way is using it's gzopen(<file or filehandle>, <mode>) call. > > Is there a filehandle that represents the output stream to the client? > > How do I get it? > > I am writing my own mod_perl handler for Apache2 (mod_perl2.0 from svs)
if you're using apache 2 then just use mod_deflate - that's what it is for. http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_deflate.html unlike with apache 1.3/mod_perl 1.0, mod_deflate will compress all output on the way to the client, even dynamically generated scripts or content handlers. HTH --Geoff
