Fabio, Mod_gzip for Apache is a better solution. Prior to it's release both Kevin and I looked at what we call "poor man's compression". I.e. just removing the blank spaces, lines and other garbage in a served page.
Here was what we learned. No one was interested. It didn't save much on the overall page, and people really don't like their HTML etc being messed with. Also it's easier if you are going to spend the CPU cycles to simply use gzip compression to squeeze the page by upwards of 80%+ and save all the formatting to the Author's HTML Mod_gzip already saves a ton of bandwidth and with a current browser there is no need to install a client side decoder. Regards, Peter J. Cranstone -----Original Message----- From: fabio rohrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 6:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mod_blanks I'm going to develop this topic for thesis. Has anybody of you any suggest for it? Something to addin the development (like compression of the string ) or some feature to implement! And, the last thing, what do you think about it? Thanks a lot, Fabio - mod_blanks: a module for the Apache web server which would on-the-fly remove unnecessary blank space, comments and other non-interesting things from the served page. Skills needed: the C langugae, a bit of text parsing techniques, HTML, learn Apache API. Complexity: low to moderate (after learning the API). Usefulness: moderate to low (but maybe better than that, it's a kind of nice toy topic that could be shown to save a lot of bandwith on the Internet :-). ______________________________________________________________________ Mio Yahoo!: personalizza Yahoo! come piace a te http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.my.yahoo.com/
