Apache::Dynagzip 0.16

Apache::Dynagzip is a mod_perl extension for Apache-1.3.X to compress the response with gzip format.

This Apache handler provides dynamic content compression of the response data stream for HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 requests. Standard gzip compression is optionally combined with an extra light compression that eliminates leading blank spaces and/or blank lines within the source document. An extra light compression could be applied even when the client (browser) is not capable to decompress gzip format.

Handler helps to compress the outbound HTML content usually by 3 to 20 times, and provides a list of useful features. This is particularly useful for compressing outgoing web content that is dynamically generated on the fly (using templates, DB data, XML, etc.), when at the time of the request it is impossible to determine the length of the document to be transmitted. Support for Perl, Java, and C source generators is provided.

Besides the benefits of reduced document size, this approach gains efficiency from being able to overlap the various phases of data generation, compression, transmission, and decompression. In fact, the browser can start to decompress a document, which has not yet been completely generated.

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Requirements:

· Perl
· Apache::Constants;
· Apache::File;
· Apache::Filter 1.019;
· Apache::Log;
· Apache::URI;
· Apache::Util;
· Fcntl;
· FileHandle;
· Compress::LeadingBlankSpaces;
· Compress::Zlib 1.16;