Re: transparent output compression patch

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 06:53:59PM +0200, Zeev Suraski wrote: > At 18:45 13-11-00, Thies C. Arntzen wrote: > >On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 05:52:37PM +0200, Zeev Suraski wrote: > > > Damn :) We'll have to merge code now. I'll first get your original code > > > to work, and then you'd could merge in your changes. > > > > > > Zeev > > > > do we really think this belongs into a scripting language? i > > think that transparent output compression should be part of > > the web-server (like an apache 2.0 filter) or a proxy in > > front of the server. > > I don't see any reason for this not to be in the scripting language. It's > useful, there's no current way of doing this (we're still years away from > wide Apache 2.0 acceptance), why not support it? we rejected a similar patch (for 3.0) for the very same reason around a year ago if i recall right. but that would be no reason to reject it now - i agree. > > There are things in PHP that are completely not useful for Web development > and nobody cares about them - I wouldn't start rejecting useful > functionality because it "doesn't belong in the scripting language"... i played around with the output-compression tools that are around and i'm not too impressed. but who knows maybe they had problems with my applications simply _because_ they weren't written by us and integrated into php;-) if we have a clean enough interface for this and it doesn't end up as a "hack" i agree -> let's get it in. tc > > Zeev > > -- > Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> > CTO, Zend Technologies Ltd. http://www.zend.com/ > >