Richard Archer wrote:
At 8:30 PM +0100 13/11/05, Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
Only cached pages are gzipped and I think that mod_gzip is bright enough to repsect the gzip header that is sent by Drupal.
On my Apache/2.0.53, PHP/4.3.11 system mod_gzip blindly compresses anything you send to it. It is not smart at all.
That's strange, it would mean that you couldn't use Drupal's caching with mod_gzip? It works just fine for me. Didn't we two fix this issue not too long ago?
By enabling zlib.output_compression in php.ini and mod_gzip in Apache you can triple-compress pages being served by Drupal!
You shouldn't be able to.
Possibly. There is a "gzip the css" task on drupal.org with some links on the topic.
I know... I posted a possible solution to that issue but nobody has commented on it so I haven't taken it any further. http://drupal.org/node/11128
Dries also made some comments about a preferred solution in: http://drupal.org/node/13224
I really think that if bandwidth is an issue the solution is to merge all the css for your site and serve it gzipped using a special entry in .htaccess. In which case this would not be an issue for most site admins... it's an issue for the hosting company.
Maybe you could set up a handbook page that explains this.
Since I run a hosting company and I pay for bandwidth this issue is on some concern to me. I'll add this task to my todo list, but it could be a month before I get to actually work on it.
Since I usually only need between 3 and 5% of my bandwidth I am only interested in it for scientic reasons. ;) Cheers, Gerhard