Re: ob_gzhandler

I just realized that "mod_deflate" is for Apache 2. I am still on the Apache 1.3 tree so I don't beleive I can take advantage. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ernest E Vogelsinger" <ernest@vogelsinger.at> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 4:00 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] ob_gzhandler > At 07:45 08.11.2002, Serge Paquin said: > --------------------[snip]-------------------- > >Hello, > > > > Is their anyway to use ob_gzhandler along with another callback? I've > >tried the following which does not work: > > > >function DoCache($buffer) { > > /* Do a bunch of stuff */ > > return ob_gzhandler($buffer); > >} > > > >ob_start("DoCache"); > > What do you mean by "does not work"? Does it output "nothing", or > can't you > see any compressed data? > > 1) output is empty > Must be an error in your DoCache() function - check the buffer you're > passing to ob_gzhandler() by writing it to a file (you can't echo it here...) > > 2) you don't see compressed output > 2.a) That's how it is designed. ob_gzhandler checks the request headers to > see if the browser supports any of the compressed formats (gzip, deflate), > and if it doesn't find it then it simply does nothing. > 2.b) PHP needs to be compiled using --with-zlib to provide ob_gzhandler > support. You don't get any error if you don't have zlib configured. Check > phpinfo() to see if zlib support is available. > > > Personal hint: > If you're using the url_rewriter.tags and have session cookies disabled, > ob_gzhandler will break this. The reason is that PHP parses the > _very_final_ output to mangle the session identifier to any (local) url; in > case this _very_final_ output is compressed ir can't find any link and > can't merge the session identifier. > > I personally believe it's better to have compression be done at the web > server (refer to > http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_deflate.html). > It's more general then, after all... > > > -- > >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger > (\) ICQ #13394035 > ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/ > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >