zlib1.1.3 and ob_gzhandler

Hello everyone, I'm a newbie here, so please forgive me if this topic has been discussed previously (I could find no mention of it). I recently compiled PHP4.0.6 with gd1.8.4 and zlib 1.1.3 and experienced no problems --except! If you use ob_gzhandler as your output handler, you'll want to make sure any image functions you use in PHP return valid images for Netscape (I tried Netscape Communicator 4.7 on Linux, Irix and Windows and got "broken images"). Funny thing is, if you right-clicked on the image and did "view image", the browser would show it correctly. After much frustration, I realized that using _no_ output handler (at least not ob_gzhandler) solved the problem. I assume this is due to a different way of gzipping data in either PHP or zlib from previous versions. I hope someone finds this information useful -- or can provide the "real" explanation, maybe even a better solution. Martin