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Store GZIP:ed text in mysql?

Hi! Is it a common thing for bigger applications and databases to GZIP text data before inserting it to the database? I'll guess that any full-text search on the actual text field will not be working before unzipping it again? Thansks ...

Opening and decompressing an XML URL in Rails

I'm building a rails app that takes information about products from an XML datafeed hosted on a 3rd party server. This XML is sent gzipped, and I'm having serious difficulty in getting anywhere with it. I've spent a fair bit of time with Google on this, but the results of my searching seem to be more about Sending Gzipped output rather ...

Apache server-side files caching via .htaccess?

Hi, I'm starting new website and gonna include several JS libs and would like to know how .htaccess file template should look like with caching of media and JS files on? Whats better for compression, GZip or Deflate? Is it better/faster solution to serve those JS libs off the Google CDN perhaps then locally? I'm asking CDN question s...

Compressing as GZip WCF requests (SOAP and REST)

I have a .NET 3.5 web app hosted on Windows Azure that exposes several WCF endpoints (both SOAP and REST). The endpoints typically receive 100x more data than they serve (lot of data is upload, much fewer is downloaded). Hence, I am willing to take advantage from HTTP GZip compression but not from the server viewpoint, but rather from t...

Exclude a file in a filematch

Hey folks I'm trying to prepend a gzip script at the beginning of every file using php_value auto_prepend_file gzip_start.php in my .htaccess. The problem is that I've already got a document called combine.php that gzips it contents. What I need to know is, how I can exclude combine.php from the files who get the gzip prepended. I ...

gzip several files and pipe them into one input

I have this program that takes one argument for the source file and then it parse it. I have several files gzipped that I would like to parse, but since it only takes one input, I'm wondering if there is a way to create one huge file using gzip and then pipe it into the only one input. ...

Apache 2 mod deflate strange behaviour

Apache compress content only if receives "Accept-Encoding: gzip" in request header. If i set "Accept-Encoding: deflate" then Apache would not compress the response anymore. Does mod_deflate use gzip compression algorithm or deflate compression algorithm (aka zlib)? ...

Can you use gzip over SSL? And Connection: Keep-Alive headers

I'm evaluating the front end performance of a secure (SSL) web app here at work and I'm wondering if it's possible to compress text files (html/css/javascript) over SSL. I've done some googling around but haven't found anything specifically related to SSL. If it's possible, is it even worth the extra CPU cycles since responses are also...

How to enable gzip HTTP compression on Windows Azure dynamic content

Hi all, I've been trying unsuccessfully to enable gzip HTTP compression on my Windows Azure hosted WCF Restful service which returns JSON only from GET and POST requests. I have tried so many things that I would have a hard time listing all of them, and I now realise I have been working with conflicting information (regarding old ver...

Does Apache Commons HttpClient support GZIP?

Does the library Apache Commons HttpClient support Gzip? We wanted to use enable gzip compression on our Apache server to speed up the client/server communications (we have a php page that allows our Android application to sync files with the Server). ...

GZIP .htaccess and php session problem

Hi, I am trying to implement GZIP compression for my website. I copied the below code in my .htaccess file: ExpiresActive On ExpiresDefault A604800 Header append Cache-Control "public" <IfModule mod_deflate.c> <FilesMatch "\.(js|css)$"> SetOutputFilter DEFLATE </FilesMatch> </IfModule> what happens is when I type userna...

Why does my javascript file sometimes compressed while sometimes not?(IIS Gzip problem)

i enable gzip for javascript file in my iis settings, here 's the corresponding config section. <httpCompression directory="%SystemDrive%\inetpub\temp\IIS Temporary Compressed Files"> <scheme name="gzip" dll="%Windir%\system32\inetsrv\gzip.dll" staticCompressionLevel="10" dynamicCompressionLevel="8" /> <dynamicTypes> ...

creating zip/rar/tar of folders in Joomla

Hi All, Please somebody help me. I want to compress a folder (which contains images & text files as well as few sub folders) in zip,rar,tar format & then give it for download to user. Is there any class/api/library/code to do so. I am working on Joomla CMS. Regards, Shahu. ...

GUNZIP / Extract file "portion by portion"

Hi. I'm on a shared server with restricted disk space and i've got a gz file that super expands into a HUGE file, more than what i've got. How can I extract it "portion" by "portion (lets say 10 MB at a time), and process each portion, without extracting the whole thing even temporarily! No, this is just ONE super huge compressed file, ...

Gzip for Classic ASP Pages

I don't have access to IIS Server as I am hosted on a shared hosting. I don't have access to remote IIS manager or the command prompt on server. Now, my question is, Is it possible to gzip my asp pages? I am hosted on an IIS 7 server. ...

Gzip is not working with dynmaic URL

hi i am using GZIP for the compression and its working fine but the problem came when the URL's are dynamic (e.g Default/template_css.php?w=310&h=237&sw=200&ct=fpss-container2). I am using Php . Thanks ...

GZipping CSS and JS files

I'm using YSlow to improve the speed of my site, and I'm having trouble with the "compress components with gzip" grade. I have this in my .htaccess file: SetOutputFilter DEFLATE AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/x-javascript But YSlow is saying There are 4 plain text components that ...

C# Compress Triple Byte Array

Hi. I currently got this script, which compresses byte arrays. But I need it rewritten, so it can compress triple byte arrays [,,] Thanks! public static byte[] Compress(byte[] buffer) { MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(); GZipStream zip = new GZipStream(ms, CompressionMode.Compress, true); zip.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length); zip.Cl...

.NET: Is it possible to get HttpWebRequest to automatically decompress gzip'd responses?

In this answer, I described how I resorted to wrappnig a GZipStream around the response stream in a HttpWebResponse, in order to decompress it. The relevant code looks like this: HttpWebRequest hwr = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(url); hwr.CookieContainer = PersistentCookies.GetCookieContainerForUrl(url); hwr.Accept = "text/...

Cannot turn on gzip compression in JBoss 5

I added following file deployers\jbossweb.deployer\server.xml <Connector compression="force" compressionMinSize="512" noCompressionUserAgents="gozilla, traviata" compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,image/png,text/css,text/javascript"> </Connector> But fiddler shows that jboss does not compress responses. How to ...