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Those are scary numbers. Anybody know of rules to force it to on, without breaking clients that really don't support it?
by lucumo 17y ago
Those are scary numbers. Anybody know of rules to force it to on, without breaking clients that really don't support it?
- JoachimSchipper 17y agoI suppose they use User-Agent sniffing, which is obviously not very robust. That said, something like the rule below should work (mod_gzip/Apache 1.x): mod_gzip_item_include reqheader "User-agent: .*MSIE 6.0.*" Mind you, this has not been tested, interacts badly with proxies, and is based on a pretty broken idea in the first place. On the other hand, almost every modern browser supports gzip, so it's not clear how much it would hurt.
- lucumo 17y agoThanks. I suppose it needs a lot of testing.
- mncaudill 17y agoNetflix did an awesome presentation on front-end performance and put up the full slides here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/14205366/High-Performance-Web-Pages-Real-World-Examples-Netflix-Case-Study http://www.scribd.com/doc/14205366/High-Performance-Web-Page.... One of the slides has their code-ready Apache configuration for gzip.