More Speed - mod_perl Module for HTML Compression

2000-11-30 Thread Nigel Hamilton
Hi, I'm trying to reduce the amount of data sent from server to browser by using compression --- hopefully accelerating the time to serve a page. Does anyone know of a mod_perl module that compresses HTML and a companion Javascript procedure that decompresses the data on the

Re: More Speed - mod_perl Module for HTML Compression

2000-11-30 Thread Robin Berjon
At 18:14 30/11/2000 +, Nigel Hamilton wrote: Also for average-sized files, does the time taken to perform the decompression/compression negate any speed increase gained by reduced file size? I don't have numbers to back this, but I'm ready to bet that writing an uncompression algo

Re: More Speed - mod_perl Module for HTML Compression

2000-11-30 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Nigel Hamilton wrote: Hi, I'm trying to reduce the amount of data sent from server to browser by using compression --- hopefully accelerating the time to serve a page. Does anyone know of a mod_perl module that compresses HTML and a companion Javascript

RE: More Speed - mod_perl Module for HTML Compression

2000-11-30 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Geoffrey Young wrote: there's mod_gzip, available from http://www.remotecommunications.com/apache/mod_gzip/ which I've played with and looks pretty good or Apache::Compress, available from CPAN, which also works rather nicely (and is Apache::Filter ready, so you can

RE: More Speed - mod_perl Module for HTML Compression

2000-11-30 Thread Geoffrey Young
-Original Message- From: Matt Sergeant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 2:33 PM To: Geoffrey Young Cc: 'Nigel Hamilton'; mod_perl list Subject: RE: More Speed - mod_perl Module for HTML Compression just beware that not all browsers that claim

RE: More Speed - mod_perl Module for HTML Compression

2000-11-30 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Geoffrey Young wrote: just beware that not all browsers that claim to accept gzip compression actually do... No its the other way around. Not all browsers that can accept gzip send out Accept-Encoding: gzip. Notably early versions of IE4. I was basing that

RE: More Speed - mod_perl Module for HTML Compression

2000-11-30 Thread Wiswell, Virginia
there's mod_gzip, available from http://www.remotecommunications.com/apache/mod_gzip/ which I've played with and looks pretty good or Apache::Compress, available from CPAN, which also works rather nicely (and is Apache::Filter ready, so you can chain PerlHandlers into it) just

RE: More Speed - mod_perl Module for HTML Compression

2000-11-30 Thread Geoffrey Young
-Original Message- From: Wiswell, Virginia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 2:52 PM To: 'Geoffrey Young'; 'Nigel Hamilton'; mod_perl list Subject: RE: More Speed - mod_perl Module for HTML Compression there's mod_gzip, available from http

Re: More Speed - mod_perl Module for HTML Compression

2000-11-30 Thread Joshua Chamas
Nigel Hamilton wrote: Does anyone know of a mod_perl module that compresses HTML and a companion Javascript procedure that decompresses the data on the client-side? I know there are Gzip modules that zip files on the way back to the browser ... but I'm after something

Re: More Speed - mod_perl Module for HTML Compression

2000-11-30 Thread Dave Kaufman
"Matt Sergeant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Geoffrey Young wrote: just beware that not all browsers that claim to accept gzip compression actually do... No its the other way around. Not all browsers that can accept gzip send out Accept-Encoding: gzip. Notably early

RE: More Speed - mod_perl Module for HTML Compression

2000-11-30 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi all, On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, an assortment of correspondents wrote: beware that not all browsers that claim to accept gzip compression actually do... No its the other way around. Not all browsers that can accept gzip send out Accept-Encoding: gzip. Notably early versions of IE4. I was

RE: [OT] More Speed - mod_perl Module for HTML Compression

2000-11-30 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Wiswell, Virginia wrote: geoff - is there any documentation as to which browsers will or will not handle gzip compression? Sorry to chime in again, I think we're way OT, but I'd say don't do it unless you have complete control over your browser situation. If

Re: More Speed - mod_perl Module for HTML Compression

2000-11-30 Thread Ken Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nigel Hamilton) wrote: I'm trying to reduce the amount of data sent from server to browser by using compression --- hopefully accelerating the time to serve a page. Does anyone know of a mod_perl module that compresses HTML and a companion Javascript procedure

Re: More Speed - mod_perl Module for HTML Compression

2000-11-30 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
"Ken" == Ken Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ken In particular, it seems like you think that users have to manually Ken decompress gzipped content, but that's not the case. Just thought I'd Ken state it if that was the confusion. Ken mod_gzip, Apache::Compress, or Apache::Gzip are

RE: More Speed - mod_perl Module for HTML Compression

2000-11-30 Thread Paul G. Weiss
with them. -Paul -Original Message- From: Matt Sergeant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 2:33 PM To: Geoffrey Young Cc: 'Nigel Hamilton'; mod_perl list Subject: RE: More Speed - mod_perl Module for HTML Compression On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Geoffrey Young