mod_gzip

[Takacs Istvan <is...@hungax.com>]

Hi

I've found this userful, little tool.
I wonder why this or a similar modul isn't 
part of the official apache distribution?
With this I can download the HTML pages at least
50-80% faster.
And what do you think its usage?
Does it have any drawback?

Thanks in advance!

Regards;

	Istvan

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Re: mod_gzip

[Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>]

On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Takacs Istvan wrote:

> Hi
>
> I've found this userful, little tool.
> I wonder why this or a similar modul isn't
> part of the official apache distribution?
> With this I can download the HTML pages at least
> 50-80% faster.
> And what do you think its usage?
> Does it have any drawback?

There is mod_deflate in Apache 2.0 which does the same thing, although it
probably isn't quite as polished as mod_gzip.

Disadvantages?  Higher latency, more processor time on server and client,
client incompatibilities, etc.

You also need to consider the fact that your most bandwidth limited
clients (modem users) already have compression built in to their modem
connections.  Plus there is some concern that applying compression to
content that will be ssl encrypted can make breaking the encryption
easier.

Lots of people find it useful anyway.

Joshua.


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