I recently discovered [mod_deflate], which compresses webserver content before sending it out - if you’re not using it you should really check it out. I turned it on and it worked flawlessly for me, with two exceptions.
- Server-side includes
These just did not play well together out of the box… - PHP and Perl “streaming” output
I have some scripts, most notably imagescraper, that need to stream the html in the results page as it is computed, not all at once AFTER it is built, as mod_deflate requires.
Turning off [mod_deflate] is trivial. I used the no-gzip environment variable as follows:
# MDM This is to disable [mod_deflate] for imagescraper, so we don't try to compress the streaming results...
<Files images_google.pl>
SetEnv no-gzip 1
</Files>
# MDM Drop this into a virtual host block to TURN OFF [mod_deflate], so it doesn't break SSI.
SetEnv no-gzip 1
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