[webpy] Re: Snippet / decorator to handle gzip Content-Encoding

[Paul Jobs]

Try beaker or flup for gzip bloofa wrote: This is essentially the recommendation of Steve Souders in his O'Reilly book "High Performance Web Sites", page 34. There are a few browsers that mis-report whether they can handle gzip; this is one way of handling some of them. I didn't know about Paste, will have a look, thanks. John On 31 Mar, 18:40, "Gary Bernhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/31/08, bloofa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there, I've seen a few queries in the list archives about this. This is what I use: Paste also has middleware for this, if you'd rather not build your own. What prompted you to include the user-agent regex? Did you run into problems with some browsers? GZIP_PAT = re.compile('^Mozilla/[5,6,7,8,9]|.*MSIE [6,7,8,9].*') def gzip_response(resp): accepts = web.ctx.env.get('HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING',None) if accepts and accepts.find('gzip') > -1: browser = web.ctx.env.get('HTTP_USER_AGENT',None) if browser and GZIP_PAT.match(browser): #ok to compress for this browser web.webapi.header('Content-Encoding','gzip') zbuf = cStringIO.StringIO() zfile = gzip.GzipFile(mode='wb', fileobj=zbuf, compresslevel=9) zfile.write(resp) zfile.close() data = "" web.webapi.header('Content-Length',str(len(data))) web.webapi.header('Vary','Accept-Encoding', unique=True) #don't vary by user-agent, defeats caching return data return resp class foo: def GET(self,whatever): ... print gzip_response( render.foo( whatever )) -- Garyhttp://blog.extracheese.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web.py" group. To post to this group, send email to webpy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/webpy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---