Comments on: Weblogs.com Not Using HTTP Compression

By: Randy Charles Morin

Randy Charles Morin — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 16:57:43 +0000

Unfortunately, the load at Weblogs.com is not browsers, it's people writing PHP using HTTP clients that don't.

By: smp

smp — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 16:35:35 +0000

All major browsers, and most recent proxy servers do handle compressed content very well. This myth has lasted since the Netscape days, and was solidified by a broken version of MSIE many years ago.IT IS UNTRUE!We busted a major Canadian bank that was not allowing any version of MSIE to be sent compressed content. But they happily sent compressed content to Firefox and Opera.Content Compression works. Do it.

By: Randy Charles Morin

Randy Charles Morin — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 16:30:30 +0000

Unfortunately, most clients don’t support it, so it really wouldn’t make much of a difference.

By: Randy Charles Morin

Randy Charles Morin — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 11:57:43 +0000

Unfortunately, the load at Weblogs.com is not browsers, it’s people writing PHP using HTTP clients that don’t.

By: smp

smp — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 11:35:35 +0000

AU CONTRAIRE!

All major browsers, and most recent proxy servers do handle compressed content very well.

This myth has lasted since the Netscape days, and was solidified by a broken version of MSIE many years ago.

IT IS UNTRUE!

We busted a major Canadian bank that was not allowing any version of MSIE to be sent compressed content. But they happily sent compressed content to Firefox and Opera.

Content Compression works. Do it.

By: Randy Charles Morin

Randy Charles Morin — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 11:30:30 +0000

Unfortunately, most clients don’t support it, so it really wouldn’t make much of a difference.