Re: [PHP4BETA] Output compression

> A while ago I implemented Content-encoding: gzip compression for php (that was > back in 3.06 and 3.1 days) which never made it into the distribution. I was > thinking about reimplementing it for php4. > I looked into the SAPI/ext mechanism but it doesn't really fit in there as I > need to act as a filter between the core and the SAPI module, not replace the > SAPI module. > I can think of three approaches: > 1) Don't touch core code and wedge into SAPI output functions at module > initialization (Problem: Get request-specific context to store compression > state.) > 2) Hack it into the low-level output functions (that's what I did the first > time). > 3) Extend SAPI or add a Filter mechanism where output filters can register to. 4) Do it in a reverse proxy in front of your server 5) Create a IO Layer (IOL) for Apache2 to do it These are both architecturally more correct ways of achieving this. PHP is not the right place to do it. -Rasmus