[thelist] mod_gzip -- what are the drawbacks?

[Peter Lowe]

On Sep 05, Timothy J. Luoma wrote:
> 
> The fantabulous WebsiteOptimization Tool[1] suggested that I check out 
> mod_gzip.
> 
> Can anyone tell me what are the drawbacks?
> 
> [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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