[Mongrel] GzipFilter gemplugin now available

[Aleksandar Lazic]

On Mon 23.10.2006 02:25, Rick Olson wrote:
>On 10/23/06, Jeroen Houben <jeroen at supercool.nl> wrote:
>>
>> Is this is only meant for apps that just use mongrel and nothing in
>> front of it? I would assume you can just switch on output compression
>> in Apache, if you're using that. But maybe I'm missing something
>> here..
>>
>
>Does apache gzip dynamic requests?  I don't think lighttpd did in my
>experience.

Since 2.x the mod_deflate is integrated and can be configured to deliver
some content compressed:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_deflate.html

Lighty can also compress the content:

http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/Mod_Deflate

and of course nginx also ;-):

http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpGzipModule

Hth

Aleks