Hi Nigel,
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From: Nigel Hamilton
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Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 6:29 PM
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However, recently I've needed to use SSL, but I've heard the
combination of mod_gzip and SSL is buggy on some browsers.
You are right, there are some known issues about M$IE, which sometimes drops
first 2K bytes, when the user refreshes content over SSL. The way to work
around is the same for all compression approaches: just place 2K blank
spaces in the beginning of every your web page (fortunately, they will be
compressed very effectively).
I've checked out Apache::DynaGzip and it looks like what I need -
but I'm interested in what other SSL+Compression combinations work best
with mod_perl?
There are no compression features for SSL on server side. Just the
encryption should be done over the (dynamically) compressed file/stream.
Apache::Dynagzip could be really helpful if you use mod_perl-enabled Apache
to generate content on-the-fly (see Web Content Compression FAQ, attached in
M$ Word format).
Here is a url that discusses compression options:
http://www.innerjoin.org/apache-compression/
I like it.
Thanks,
Slava
Web Content Compression FAQ-rev7.doc
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