Re: transparent output compression patch

The deflate coding didn't work because I sent a zlib header/trailer. Without them everything seems to work fine (so far :). May be that problems will arise in certain circumstances (as described in Remote Communications' mod_gzip.c). Nevertheless it is a good thing to have this in PHP. Of course the compression isn't enabled by default. A php developer has to ponder the use of compression and really only apply it if it's use is adequate. -Jade. On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 08:47:21PM -0300, Manuel Lemos wrote: > Hello Jade, > > On 12-Nov-00 19:12:00, you wrote: > > >Bugs/TODOs: > > 1. Grep for them (TODO|FIXME). > > 2. The deflate coding dosn't work. I don't see why, right now... hint? > > In theory checking if the Accepting-Encoding: request header would be > enough to figure if compression is acceptable in the requesting browser (or > proxy server). The truth is that it isn't that simple. There are plenty > of circumstances where it may not work and the end user will only see a > blank page. > > If you look into Remote Communications mod_gzip source code they explain > some of the circumstances where it does not work. Oddly they seem to not > handle those situations. That suggests that they may want people to > complain so they can sell their commercial solution. > > Anyway, there seem to be other situations that they admitedly did not seem > to know, like proxy servers that choke on character 0 (NUL) in a > Content-Type: text/html stream. Many free access ISP use proxy servers and > they now represent a significative market share in many countries. I don't > know if some could not be using broken proxy servers to make all this that > hard to handle. > > > Regards, > Manuel Lemos > > Web Programming Components using PHP Classes. > Look at: http://phpclasses.UpperDesign.com/?user=mlemos@acm.org > -- > E-mail: mlemos@acm.org > URL: http://www.mlemos.e-na.net/ > PGP key: http://www.mlemos.e-na.net/ManuelLemos.pgp > -- -- =============================================================================== Jade Nicoletti Nicoletti Net Services Tel. 01 240 4774 Geschäftsleitung Postfach 2519 Fax 01 240 4775 System-Administration 8021 Zürich ============================================[ Weitere Infos: http://nns.ch/ ]==