[Cherrypy-users] Re: How to use gzipfilter?

[Peter H. <pe...@en...>]

Mathieu Rouleau wrote:
> and actually i think the compression only affects text/html content
> looks like some browsers don't like their images compressed or some such 
> odd behavior
> 
> i'd tag on a question of my own to this thread,
> can I enable compression for other content-types? the docs are a little 
> sketchy, or am i completely off the track?

I can't answer the question directly, but you generally don't want to be 
trying to compress binary files like images if they're already 
compressed (e.g. PNG and JPG).

Compressing compressed files almost always leads to an _increase_ in 
file size, and at the cost of increased processing time on both ends.

-Peter