What gzip settings u use?

[WildWayz]

Lo all,

What do you all set your gzip settings to in vB?
Or do you leave at it's default value?

--James

[Chris Schreiber]

Use the default value of "1".... it really shouldn't even be an option, as other values will use more CPU time and not give any noticable improvements.

[eva2000]

yup use "1" as well :)

[WildWayz]

heehee ok ta ;)

--James

[TundraSoul]

I was wondering what browsers can actually use the gzip pages?

Additionally I ran my info.php and zlib showed these settings:

ZLib Support enabled
'zlib:' fopen wrapper enabled
Compiled Version 1.1.3
Linked Version 1.1.3

So I'm assuming gzip is working?

I noticed Apache has it listed in the http headers HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate.

Thanks!

[TundraSoul]

The best I can hope for is to answer my own questions. Yes it's enabled and yes it's working. :rolleyes:

[Dave#]

Originally posted by TundraSoul
The best I can hope for is to answer my own questions. Yes it's enabled and yes it's working. :rolleyes:

Are you sure?

http://leknor.com/code/gziped.php?host=tundrasolutions.com&path=%2Findex.php

[JamesUS]

That page shows that the URL mentioned has a 302 not found error, which isn't gzipped. The actual page might be though :)

[VirtueTech]

What I found weird recently is that some IE6 browser do not have gzip capabilities.

Its just not enabled.

As far as I know there is no way to enable the gzip or HTTP compression via the browsers options.

Am I wrong?

[eva2000]

Originally posted by VirtueTech
What I found weird recently is that some IE6 browser do not have gzip capabilities.

Its just not enabled.

As far as I know there is no way to enable the gzip or HTTP compression via the browsers options.

Am I wrong? don't think there is a way :(

[Dave#]

Is it not


tools ---> Advanced ---> use HTTP1.1 ?

[VirtueTech]

Yeah they have that set but on my GZIP test script it shows them as having not having GZIP enabled.

http://www.paintballcity.com/gziptest/

Usually the users $HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING would be "gzip, deflate"

But some of my users even though that have "HTTP 1.1" set do not have gzip compatibility.

[Dave#]

Originally posted by VirtueTech
Yeah they have that set but on my GZIP test script it shows them as having not having GZIP enabled.

http://www.paintballcity.com/gziptest/

Usually the users $HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING would be "gzip, deflate"

But some of my users even though that have "HTTP 1.1" set do not have gzip compatibility.

err how how you doing this gzip test? I just tried and got no gzip on ie5.5 . . .

[VirtueTech]

<?php
global $HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING;
if(!ereg("gzip", $HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING)){

// 'no gzip' code here

} else {

// 'gzip enabled' code here

}
?>

[LeeS]

Opera 5+ supports gzip.

Page load without gzip: 8 seconds
Page load WITH gzip: 2 seconds..

hmm. :)