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In the spirit of saving bits I set up mod_gzip on my
Apache 1.3 server. Now HTTP stuff is compressed in transit.
Fetching my weblog went from 20384 bytes to 9717
bytes; even better, it went from 38 packets to 21 packets. This may
seem silly but on an ADSL line upstream bandwidth is hugely limited;
anything I can do to save bandwidth is welcome.
Usability on mod_gzip is fairly low. Original site is offline, docs are awful. Fortunately someone has taken on the task of making a decent support site. Even then the details of how it works are magic and opaque; honestly, this kind of server configuration should be much easier or automatic. Maybe it is in Apache 2.0.
Here's the magic I'm using:
LoadModule gzip_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_gzip.so
<IfModule mod_gzip.c> mod_gzip_on yes mod_gzip_dechunk yes mod_gzip_item_exclude reqheader "User-agent: Mozilla/4.0[678]" mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$ mod_gzip_item_include mime text/ </IfModule> |
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