[thelist] serving gzip - pros and cons?

Bob Easton bob at eleaston.com
Sat Feb 8 12:23:01 CST 2003


What are the pros and cons of serving web content compressed via gzip? Some
servers have methods for doing this easily, and it appears that modern
browsers can readily receive and decode gzip streams.  With a compression
ratio of up to 10:1, it looks like a good way to reduce bandwidth.

Pros? Cons?

TIA,
Bob Easton






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