How to enable GZIP Compression?

[Leknor]

Originally posted by smachol
Hmmm....further testing indicates that my site is being gzip'd but the reporting at the Leknor site is faulty.
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Thus it does appear that gzip is working. The error is in the way Leknor is reporting the results.

I took a look at your site and how my gziped.php reports your site and you're right. My gziped.php page was wrong.

I had used the fgets() php funtion with a limit of 128 bytses per read. Well you're Server: header is 128 bytes long so the next read would read the end of line from the Server line and my code would think it is a blank line which would make it think it think that was the end of the HTTP header. It is now fixed and I (and I'm sure any other webmaster) would apprecitate it if you would email them about problems. Sorry about the run-on sentences, it is past my bed time.

[Steve Machol]

Good job! Thanks for the fix!

[Jake Bunce]

yowasa?

http://www.mac-gamer.com/forum/phpinfo.php

am i still not zlib / gzip enabled? I'm not sure where to look in my php profile.

[Hooper]

Smachol

I went and tested your site as well as mine. Both still say not gzipped and I know we both have it.

Hooper

[Oasis]

Re: yowasa?

Originally posted by Jakeman
http://www.mac-gamer.com/forum/phpinfo.php

am i still not zlib / gzip enabled? I'm not sure where to look in my php profile.

No you don't have zlib installed. If it were installed it would have a section for it.....funnily enough called ZLIB

[Steve Machol]

Re: Smachol

Originally posted by Hooper
I went and tested your site as well as mine. Both still say not gzipped and I know we both have it.

Hooper

That's weird! When I check it using 'machol.com' as the domain name it does shows that it's gzip'd. However when I use 'optiboard.com' it show it's not gzip'd. The strange thing about this is that both these domains point to the exact same page!

Leknor?

[Leknor]

Re: Re: Smachol

Originally posted by smachol


That's weird! When I check it using 'machol.com' as the domain name it does shows that it's gzip'd. However when I use 'optiboard.com' it show it's not gzip'd. The strange thing about this is that both these domains point to the exact same page!

Leknor?

They don't point to the same page. One url points to the other url which has your forum.

The http://optiboard.com link refircts to http://www.machol.com/forums/ . This is actaully 2 requests. The first HTTP request is to http://optiboard.com in which a 301 reply is returned. The 301 reply is nothing more then a redirect and usually has no content so the browser automatically loads the page redirtected to. My gziped.php script is very simple and doesn't handle complex redirects. Just feed it the final page that the browser would load.

[Steve Machol]

That could explain it. I'm in the process of changing servers and DNS so I needed to set up a redirect on my old site.

[latinO]

Do I have GZIP...?

Hi,

last night a looked up the phpinfo.php file on the server. I found the following lines when searching for GZIP

HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate

Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate

HTTP_SERVER_VARS["HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING"] gzip, deflate

Does this mean I have the library ( zlib ), GZIP works?Thanks,

latinO

[Mike Sullivan]

No, that just means your browser supports it -- you need to look for a "zlib" section.

[latinO]

Originally posted by Ed Sullivan
No, that just means your browser supports it -- you need to look for a "zlib" section.

No,

no "zlib", so I'll have to contact my hosting company...? Do you think they know "zlib"?

Thank you,

latinO

[latinO]

Is it much work to install "zlib"...? How long does it take...?
To tell my hosting company!

[imranbaig]

Hi, I have Zlib Installed, and Enabled.
But in PHP.ini compression is turned off, I tried to edit php.ini and turn it on, but it is not showing on in phpinfo.
Any help please.
Thanks.

[Steve Machol]

Please post a new thread in the appropriate forum for your version.