Re: feature request : gzip caching

Why is PHP handling static file serving? This is squarely outside of it's domain. Have nginx or something upstream handle gzipping content. --jk > On Aug 27, 2016, at 1:22 PM, Rene Veerman <rene.veerman.netherlands@gmail.com> wrote: > > eh no, i'm a big fan of caching output in js / json cache files :) > but those still need to get gzipped... not just my main JS file, also my > photoalbum contents -> another 1Mb of JSON content... > > On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> > wrote: > >> >> >> On 27 August 2016 17:52:48 BST, Rene Veerman <rene.veerman.netherlands@ >> gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi.. >>> >>> First off, i love PHP. Many thanks for keeping it free too. >>> >>> However, i've noticed that gzipping the 1Mb of javascript that my >>> seductiveapps.com needs, takes a relatively long time (measured over a >>> total page load time which i'd like to bring down from it's current 10 >>> seconds, about a second or even more is spent gzipping (by a core i5 >>> machine)).. >> >> Are you building the js each time it's requested? Have you thought about >> building it as a deployment step for production? >> >>> >>> At one time, i spent time building PHP code that cached the >>> already-gzipped >>> content and outputted that with just readfile().. But i never got it to >>> work a second time, unfortunately.. >> Why don't you want the web server to handle the gzip side of things? It >> would make more sense surely? >> >>> Could you pretty please add this to the core of PHP? Shouldn't be that >>> hard >>> for the internals team right?.. >>> >>> Many thanks in advance for even considering to do this.. >>> >>> with regards, >>> Rene Veerman, >>> CEO + CTO of seductiveapps.com >> >> -- >> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. >>