Re: [PHP4BETA] Output compression

Joey wrote: > I believe that's already been done? > http://www.php.net/manual/ref.zlib.php3 Ok, simple background info to avoid confusion with zlib-Support: HTTP allows for data sent over the net to be encoded, one of the possible Content-encoding: types is gzip. Browsers transparently decompress the content before displaying it. Idea: A large amount of data sent out from our site is html text. Generally it can be compressed by a factor of 4. To save bandwidth I want to live-compress the php-generated html page on our side. Decompression on the other side is automatic. Real-world: Content-encoding: gzip is only done if the browsers sends the Accept-encoding: .*gzip.* header and 95% of the current browsers (i.e. Netscape >= 3 and IE >= 4) support this. Advantage: Less bandwidth used, shorter transfer times over slow connections. Disadvantage: More CPU needed on server side. Decompression on client side is not really an issue. But nowadays it's much easier and less expensive to have a faster server than to have a faster connection so compression makes sense IMHO. - Chris -- Chris Schneider, mailto:cschneid@relog.ch Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.