Re: gzip-based html compression

You can do that pretty much transparently today(*), using the following code: prepend.inc.php: <? ob_start(); header("Content-type: text/x-gzip-compressed"); // I don't really remember what this line should really look like, this is just the general idea ?> append.inc.php: <? $content = ob_get_string(); ob_end_flush(); print gzcompress($content); ?> Zeev (*) Requires PHP 4.0 On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > Hi, > > today I came across the following on freshmeat.net: > > "AlgART HTML Packer (AHP) allows you to reduce the download time of > your Web site by 2-10 times. It does this via automatic, dynamic > compression of all Web pages of your site with use of the standard > "GZip-Encoding". Packing speed is about 200-500 Kb/sec on > Pentium-200. The unpacking takes virtually no time. It works on both > Apache and MS IIS." > > I understand that the "major" browsers (Netscape Navigator (Mozilla?), > MS Internet Explorer, ...) support the transport of gzip-compressed HTML > pages through HTTP. > Sadly I was not able to find information on this standard on w3.org. > > I'd like to write, if possible, a small library in PHP that sends the > output of PHP scripts gzip-compressed, if the visitor's browser supports > this. > > Just a thought, > Sebastian > > -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/