[ka-Map-users] gzip-ing .js

[Paul Ramsey]

Make sure you test this well across multiple platforms before you  
implement. Some browsers are happy to accept gzip encoded HTML, but  
croak when handed .js or .css gzipped.
P

On Mar 6, 2006, at 8:48 AM, David Bitner wrote:

> I've used this PHP method succesfully with other js for quite a while.
>  Another option in Apache is to use mod_gzip or mod_deflate to
> compress all html,js, and css that goes through the webserver.
>
> On 3/6/06, Brent Pedersen <bpederse at gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi, just saw this use of php that seems especially applicable to  
>> ka-map
>> javascript.
>> you can get php to gzip .js (or .css) files for you. this seems to be
>> working pretty well. (see code below.) it gets it down to a single  
>> request
>> of 27K instead of 8 requests totalling > 130K.
>>
>> -brent
>>
>>
>> <?php
>> ob_start ("ob_gzhandler");
>> header("Content-type: text/javascript; charset: UTF-8");
>> header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate");
>> $days = 30;
>> $offset = 60 * 60 * 24 * $days;
>> $ExpStr = "Expires: " .
>> gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s",
>> time() + $offset) . " GMT";
>> header($ExpStr);
>>
>> $files = array("DHTMLapi.js", "xhr.js", "jsExpander.js ", "kaMap.js",
>> "kaTool.js", "startUp.js", "extra.js","testExtents.js");
>>
>> foreach ($files as $fi){
>>   print file_get_contents($fi);
>> }
>>
>> ?>
>>
>>
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