In a message dated 01-04-23 20:26:48 EDT, you write:
> It works just fine in the latest snapshots. There was a juicy bug in PHP
> 4.0.4 that prevented it from working. That's just a minor detail though.
> By the time Apache2 is anywhere near stable any and all such bugs will be
> worked out.
>
> Rasmus
SUPER! That's great news.
There is a saying in compression circles...
"The best way to compress data is to find a way to not have
to send it at all".
Same is true of compression filters...
The best way to intercept and compress the output of back-end
programs delivering data across a network that aren't using
compression is to do all you can to make sure it doesn't even need
to be done. The best place to compress dynamic output is
always the origin source.
BTW: How does PHP know to NOT compress certain MIME
types but only if it's a certain version of Netscape which is
known to not be able to handle the decoding? That's the 'smarts'
I was talking about that it doesn't have. It's pretty much an
'all or nothing' thing, I believe, which most people find inadequate.
Yours...
Kevin Kiley
