Re: [Phpwiki-talk] rss for RecentChanges

[Carsten K. <car...@ma...>]

Thanks, you've answered my question too (even before I had a chance to ask 
it!) :-)

My browser OmniWeb also downloads the RSS file as a gz archive. No problem 
with that, it just surprised me.

Carsten

On Friday, December 14, 2001, at 12:17  am, Jeff Dairiki wrote:

> On seemingly gzipped data:
>
> Currently, PhpWiki (1.3) uses PHP's ob_gzhandler() function to
> gzip-compress data sent to clients who send an 'Accept-Encoding:
> application/gzip' header in their request.  When this happens, the fact
> that the data is compressed in indicated by a 'Content-Encoding' header in
> the response --- then the client/browser is supposed to uncompress the
> data before doing anything else with it.
>
> If you're seeing seemingly random (gzipped looking) binary data, then
> something is wrong with this process.  (The RSS data is XML, and should
> look like something if you look at it with a text viewer.)