[Gllug] Enabling compression on Apache

[Sean Burlington]

Richard Jones wrote:
> There seem to be quite a few modules which do this - eg. mod_deflate,
> Apache::DynaGzip, mod_gunzip (?).  Which is best?
> 

mod_deflate and mod_gunzip do different things ...

most modern clients will can unzip content on the fly if the correct 
header is sent:
AddEncoding x-gzip .gz .tgz

for clients that don't send a header indicating that thay can 
uncomperess on the fly - mod_gunzip will perform the decompression 
server side (when required)

mod_gzip and mod_deflate (I haven't used these) work the other way 
around - content is stored or generated uncompressed but compressed by 
the server

more info at

http://www.innerjoin.org/apache-compression/

-- 

Sean

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