[thelist] mod_gzip -- what are the drawbacks?

[Wesley Mason]

Yup, had the same problem here, even spent a few extra seconds SSHing 
into my server from work to check I hadn't accidentally disabled the 
gzip pipeline on my CMS' scripts.

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Wes

Peter Lowe wrote:
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>>[1] http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
> 
> 
> Just tried out this service on one of my sites I have to say I wasn't
> too impressed - mod_gzip is enabled on my server and the report still
> stated "# This site is not using HTTP compression, otherwise called
> content encoding using gzip. Consider compressing your textual content
> (XHTML, JavaScript, etc.) with mod_gzip or similar products." (This
> despite the previous page stating that compression is detected). It's a
> pretty simple test to find out if gzip compression is being used or not
> (just send the header "Accept-Encoding: gzip" and look for the header
> "Content-Encoding: gzip" in reply), so I don't think I'm going to be
> recommending this to anyone.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Peter
> 
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