Re: Re: Output Compression Issues

On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Zeev Suraski wrote: > So, to summarize: > > - Output compression should probably check that the content type is text/*, > and not perform compression otherwise I think I'd prefer to leave control of this in user-land, because this _is_ supported under HTTP/1.1, and write some additional documentation for the manual explaining our experiences to people who are interested in output compression..unless this is a far easier thing to implement than what I was suggesting (not sending the Content-Encoding header until the buffer is flushed, either explicitly or implicitly at exit) > - We can look into sending the content length header from the output > compression callback > > Can anybody think of good reasons not to send the content-length header in > case we're performing output buffering? Nope. John -- John Donagher Application Engineer, Intacct Corp. Public key available off http://www.keyserver.net Key fingerprint = 4024 DF50 56EE 19A3 258A D628 22DE AD56 EEBE 8DDD