Re: [Webware-discuss] compression (ACCEPT ENCODING)

[Tim P. <tp...@ma...>]

On Wednesday, January 9, 2002, at 08:48  AM, Clark C . Evans wrote:

> I was wondering how to implement compression so
> that big, repetitive html files are gzipped when
> downloaded.  I noticed that IE 5.5 and up send
> ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate AND that Mozilla
> sends ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate, compress
>
> Anyway to take advantage of this?  My pages
> are getting to be pretty huge, especially the
> ones with repetitive drop down list boxes...
>
> ;) Clark

Check out mod_gzip for apache. 
(http://www.remotecommunications.com/apache/mod_gzip/)  I haven't tried 
this out with Webware, but you should be able to make it all work 
together.  If not, I think there are a few gzip modules for python, so 
you could encode output through AppServer yourself.