[rt-users] Optimising for low bandwidth with mod_deflate

[Woody - Wild Things]

Jesse Vincent wrote:
> 
> First up, you probably want to use mod_gzip. That will be a HUGE
> improvement for your users and will get a lot more improvement than
> little content hacks like you've been pondering.
> Jesse

Hi Jesse et al,

That was an excellent suggestion, tho after some digging mod_gzip is 
apache1 and its mod_deflate in apache2. I've implemented it and it was 
trivial on gentoo - i added to httpd.conf

    LoadModule deflate_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_deflate.so
    SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
    SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$  no-gzip dont-vary
    SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.pdf$ no-gzip dont-vary

my pages are now 25% of the total size, and the text content < 20% - a 
huge saving - so i don't really need to reduce the number of tickets 
displayed any more. cool.


I'd still like to strip the sigs and > > >  tho - they annoy me!
scrip, or in the perl? any hints...

thanks for your help. It will really make a difference to our workforce.

Woody.

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