I know Neil zips his pages and so does Chris (as he asked if I could switch it on for helsby.net (but I think he meant absoblogginlutely.net)) but on reading up about it, there are two scary reads that talk about 2KB of data going missing, which is certainly one way of compressing the data! There is also the Browser Compatibility issue where css files could not be downloaded and Netscape 3 doesn’t even see the file at all! (and i’ve had 38 hits from Netscape
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Check this out;
http://www.samspade.org/t/safe?u=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.iloaf.com
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 66776
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
If a web browser doesn’t state in the request it accecpts encoding gzip then mod_gzip doesn’t send it (and hence the 66Kb page).
Nice IE bug by the way 😀 😀 😀