Hi all, The URL http://forum.swarthmore.edu/~ken/modules/archive/Apache-Compress-1.002.tar.gz has entered CPAN as file: $CPAN/authors/id/K/KW/KWILLIAMS/Apache-Compress-1.002.tar.gz size: 10708 bytes md5: 7fef7de82d46083a1b0f2ea1492d2faf Here's the documentation. I'd appreciate any feedback from people who use the module, if only to tell me that it works or doesn't work. ----------------------------------------------------------- NAME Apache::Compress - Auto-compress web files with Gzip SYNOPSIS PerlModule Apache::Compress # Compress regular files <FilesMatch "\.blah$"> PerlHandler Apache::Compress </FilesMatch> # Compress output of Perl scripts PerlModule Apache::Filter <FilesMatch "\.pl$"> PerlSetVar Filter on PerlHandler Apache::RegistryFilter Apache::Compress </FilesMatch> DESCRIPTION This module lets you send the content of an HTTP response as gzip- compressed data. Certain browsers (Netscape, IE) can request content compression via the `Content-Encoding' header. This can speed things up if you're sending large files to your users through slow connections. Browsers that don't request gzipped data will receive regular noncompressed data. This module is compatibile with Apache::Filter, so you can compress the output of other content-generators. TO DO Compress::Zlib provides a facility for buffering output until there's enough data for efficient compression. Currently we don't take advantage of this facility, we simply compress the whole content body at once. We could achieve better memory usage if we changed this (at a small cost to the compression ratio). See Eagle book, p.185. AUTHOR Ken Williams, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Partially based on the work of several modules, like Doug MacEachern's Apache::Gzip (in the Eagle book but not on CPAN), Andreas Koenig's Apache::GzipChain, and an unreleased module by Geoffrey Young and Philippe Chiasson. SEE ALSO perl(1), mod_perl(1), Apache::Filter(3)
