Re: Gzip compressed document how?

At 10:50 3-8-00 -0400, Michael Kimsal wrote:

We just spent too much time on this yesterday. The crux is that you need to add specific headers and footers to the gzip data - an md5 hash (I think) and the size of the data, as well as some other stuff which helps the browser. Try chaning gzip to 'compress' and using M16 Mozilla - that works. Chris Adams is apparently working on this topic and is putting together an article about how to do this - he posted a few days ago to the list a demo at

can Anyone/you send me the example i missed the tread and can't find it in thr archive/trash Tnx, Wico

gzip.digitaria.com. One paragraph repeated hundreds of times (not quite a 'real world' test, but you get the picture). About 1 meg of html gzip compressed to about 7k. BTW, chris, I forgot to mention that it didn't work in our IE5 for some reason. ??? I think Chris may be able to shed some more light on this, or you can wait for the article. Wico de Leeuw wrote: Hiya can anybody tell me why this isn't working? <? strstr($GLOBALS[HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING], "gzip") OR die("missing support"); $data = "test test test test test test test test test"; $new_len = strlen($data = gzcompress($data, 9)); Header("Content-Type: text/html"); Header("Content-Length: $new_len"); Header("Content-Encoding: gzip"); echo $data; ?> Greetz, Wico -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- ========================== Michael Kimsal http://www.tapinternet.com 734-480-9961