[phpa] Re: mod_gzip [was Re: Re: key for subdomains]

 and the extremely unhelpful and frankly
> rude people at RemoteCommunications didn't even deign to respond with an
> answer when I asked whether this was possible. I've taken off my
> acknowledgement of their offering from my site as a result).

AFAIK the mod_gzip project is preparing to be mothballed.  The source was 
handed to the nice people at apache for inclusion in 2.0 and it's my 
understanding that that is it as far as the development is going.





>
> 
> >
> >> PHPA works on PHP input rather than output, so you can use
> >> ob_gzhandler
> > just
> >> as you would without PHPA. You might want to consider using mod_gzip
> >> as a more general solution for output compression though.
> >
> > What advantages are there with using mod_gzip instead of the very
> > comfortable built in ob_gzhandler? I understand that mod_gzip will
> > compress all output and not just php generated documents, but are there
> > other advantages?
> 
> mod_gzip is fairly configurable and 'smart' (although you seemingly can't
> disable it based on HTTP_USER_AGENT, and the extremely unhelpful and frankly
> rude people at RemoteCommunications didn't even deign to respond with an
> answer when I asked whether this was possible. I've taken off my
> acknowledgement of their offering from my site as a result).
> 
> Personally I'd use mod_gzip because I don't have to then go to *any* effort
> to have the output of my php scripts compressed, and whilst it's hardly much
> effort, no effort it still better than not much :)
> 
> It's also a real boon when downloading or viewing large text attachments in
> SquirrelMail, such as apache error logs, that weren't compressed when mailed
> to me.
> 
> Just my 2p worth :)
> 
> nick
> 
> 
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