Well if his normal page is 100k and he can cut the size down to 50k with gzip then instead of having a monthly transfer of 100 GB for example, he would only be paying for 50 GB. Seems like it's useful for extremely large sites.
-----Original Message----- From: John Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: May 14, 2002 6:43 PM To: 'Girish Nath'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] Cool PHP Tricks/Features ? Why do you think this is useful to you? I remember reading an article on this and its conclusion was that zipping the output was only beneficial for large data between fast computers over a slow pipe. You have to look at who your clients are and if it's beneficial to have their machine use up extra time (processing power) unzipping things or not. Also, you're using more processing time on your computer having to do the zipping for every request, too. ---John Holmes... > -----Original Message----- > From: Girish Nath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 9:28 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP] Cool PHP Tricks/Features ? > > Hi > > I've been using PHP for about 2 years now but only just discovered > ob_gzhandler and gzip/compressing http output. > It's something i wish i'd found out about earlier because even though it's > a > simple concept the result blew me away :) > > Anyway, i just wanted to know of any other cool tricks/features that you > guys are using that others could have overlooked. > > Thanks > > > Girish > -- > www.girishnath.co.uk > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.361 / Virus Database: 199 - Release Date: 07/05/02 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.361 / Virus Database: 199 - Release Date: 07/05/02 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
