Re: HTTP compression
| From: | Teodor Cimpoesu | Date: | Sun, 04 Feb 2001 18:25:53 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: HTTP compression | ||
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Carsten Gehling wrote:
>
> From: "Teodor Cimpoesu" <teo@digiro.net>
> Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 7:08 PM
>
> > a HTTP response is made of response header(s) and the response body.
> > Only the body
> > is compressed, and this is signaled in the headers so the User Agent
> > will know
> > not to stare to a bunch of binary data :)
>
> Where can I get the specs on the compression algorithm? Is it specified in a
> RFC?
erm, it's gzip I guess.
PHP uses zlib to send compressed output, afaik [i.e. you must have
--with-zlib
in order to use the output compression handler ]
-- teodor