[rt-users] Optimising for low bandwidth with mod_deflate

[Ruslan Zakirov]

On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Woody - Wild Things
<woody at wildthingsafaris.com> wrote:
> 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...
search for Text::Quoted in the code

>
> thanks for your help. It will really make a difference to our workforce.
>
> Woody.
>
> --
> -----------------------
> Richard Wood (Woody)
> Managing Director
> Wild Thing Safaris Ltd.
> PO BOX 34514 DSM
> Office: +255 (0) 222 617 166
> Mobile: +255 (0) 773 503 502
>
> http://www.wildthingsafaris.com
> http://www.wildthingsafaris.com/pub/woody.html
> _______________________________________________
> http://lists.bestpractical.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rt-users
>
> Community help: http://wiki.bestpractical.com
> Commercial support: sales at bestpractical.com
>
>
> Discover RT's hidden secrets with RT Essentials from O'Reilly Media.
> Buy a copy at http://rtbook.bestpractical.com
>



-- 
Best regards, Ruslan.