Use mod_gzip with Apache, there's an article on http://www.linux.ie/
about it which is a bit out of date but has the necessary links to get
you up and running. As John mentioned, all browsers are not equal. Even
the same version of IE (including minor build numbers) on different
machines may not always work, but 99.9999999% of the time it works
invisibly!
Donncha.
John McCormac wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Lotas T Smartman wrote:
>> > Has anyone set up GZip compression (on the fly) in apache? Im trying on my home network because my main website is now hosted at home. Currently im on a 33.6k line, but im hoping to get cable. Anyway, has anyone set this up yet? Thanks
>> Yes it works and the compression is fairly good on pure HTML pages. The
> downside is that browsers are not equal and some will prompt the user to
> download the page.html.gz file since the .gz extension is not set up in
> their mime types. I was using it on WhoisIreland.com for a while but it is
> search engine unfriendly and most search engines are (I think) set up to
> ignore files with .gz extensions.
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