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Automatic gzip compression for Apache2 Webservers

after failing and failing again in the last months, I finally got it with the help of http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/137

The .htaccess configuration
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/javascript
requires Apache’s mod_deflate enabled via
$ a2enmod deflate
Module deflate installed; run /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload to enable.
Check the result with http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php

Caution: There seems to be an If-Modified-Since/Last-Modified HTTP 304 bug in mod_deflate, …

Posted 13 Juni 2010 † Marcus Rohrmoser § Articles in english § sysadmin ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

NSURLConnection gzip magic

For quite some time I ranted about not being able to use compressed network communcation out-of-the-box on the iPhone.

Despite being undocumented (or I just overlooked the hint), NSURLConnection does gzip decompression transparently!

That’s how to use it:

ensure the webserver sends gzipped content, use e.g. wget to verify:
$ wget –header=’Accept-Encoding: gzip’ \
–server-response …

Posted 28 Juni 2009 † Marcus Rohrmoser § Articles in english § development ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,