Sean,
Thanks, I see. How about headers ? Do they need to be compressed, too; in
other words, do headers "belong" to the output ?
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Sean Cazzell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Envoye : dimanche 4 fevrier 2001 17:39
> A : Alain Fontaine
> Cc : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Objet : RE: [PHP] HTTP compression
>
>
> Alain,
>
> When PHP parses a file, it treats the stuff that's not in <?php?> blocks
> as though each line were a print or echo statement. So your whole file
> will be compressed and sent to the browser.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sean
>
> On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Alain Fontaine wrote:
>
> > Rasmus,
> >
> > Thanks for the clarification; it seems obvious, too, that
> mixing compressed
> > and non compressed content would be quite difficult to
> implement; at least
> > it would partially compromise the speed/size gain because of
> added protocol
> > overhead.
> >
> > Now, imagining that we have enabled compression by calling
> > ob_start("ob_gzhandler"), what happens for a document that contains
> > something along these lines:
> >
> > <!-- snip -->
> > ...
> > <?
> > // Enable HTTP compression
> > ob_start("ob_gzhandler");
> >
> > // PHP content
> > $content = "This is some content.";
> > ?>
> >
> > <div>This is a normal HTML section</div>
> >
> > <?
> > // PHP content continues
> > $content .= "And the rest of it.";
> > echo $content;
> > ?>
> > ...
> > <!-- snip -->
> >
> > In this particular case, what would be compressed ? As far as I have
> > understood, nothing at all, because some part of the output is
> not "passing
> > through" PHP, right ?
> >
> > > -----Message d'origine-----
> > > De : Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Envoye : dimanche 4 fevrier 2001 14:34
> > > A : Alain Fontaine
> > > Cc : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Objet : Re: [PHP] HTTP compression
> > >
> > >
> > > > I've just started experimenting with ob_start("ob_gzhandler") a
> > > bit, and I
> > > > have found that if any output is generated before
> ob_start() is called,
> > > > nothing at all gets compressed; if ob_start() is called before
> > > any output,
> > > > everything is compressed.
> > > >
> > > > Is this the case, I mean, is this "by design" ?
> > >
> > > Yes, it wouldn't really work any other way. You can't mix
> non-compressed
> > > and compressed in the same request.
> > >
> > > -Rasmus
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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