Rev cgi & gzip HTML data to browser

[Mark Schonewille]

HiJB,

It is not clear to me whether you are trying to display data in a  
browser or want to download a file to disk. In any case, make sure  
that the first line returned by the cgi contains the correct mime  
type for the .gz extension:

put "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" & cr & cr

It is possible that the browser slows down because it needs to find  
out what type of data it is downloading. Providing the correct mime  
type may help.

Best,

Mark


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Op 18-aug-2006, om 17:47 heeft jbv het volgende geschreven:

> Hi list,
>
> Has anyone tried to send compress data (gzip) from Rev cgi to a  
> browser
> ?
> I've spent the afternoon experimenting with this, and it works quite
> well
> (compress() squeezes 1 Mb of HTML data into 120 Kb), but it seems that
> the browser takes forever to decompress the code... And finally,  
> there's
> no
> real gain, since the time saved in downloading data is lost when  
> browser
>
> decompresses data...
>
> Is there any trick / tip ?
> I had the feeling that decompress routines embeded in the browser (IE6
> Win)
> would be much faster, at least as fast as the decompress() function in
> Rev...
> Sure, my Win box is a bit slow (Athlon 1.46 GHz), but nevertheless...
>
> Thanks,
> JB