On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Neil Gunton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only downside is that people on extremely slow dialup connections might > notice longer download times for page text... but I have to wonder if that's > really an issue today. Back in 1998 perhaps you might care about something > being 20KB rather than 80KB, but surely not today. In any case, don't dialup > ISPs often implement their own compression now?
Compressing is pretty important: http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2007/07/high_performanc_3.html I wonder if there's a way to make the mod_deflate Vary header a bit saner, so it just reflects compressed or not, rather than every possible User-Agent. There are also alternative ways to cache pages, like pre-publishing them as static files or doing page caching with mod_perl handlers that intercept the request before the response phase and serve a cached copy. It's very convenient to use mod_cache though. - Perrin
