[haosmark]

Do you guys use gzip in your applications? Is it a major benefit? Are there drawbacks?

[Da:Sourcerer]

For what precisely? Data storage? Transport encoding?

[samdark]

We do. The benefit is significant but never do it on PHP side. Use Apache or nginx module. deflate works even better btw.

[Da:Sourcerer]

Correct me if I'm wrong ... but isn't deflate just gzip sans header and checksum?

[jacmoe]

Gzip is good:

http://www.askapache...ompression.html



That reminds me to actually go and configure my own server to use this..

[Da:Sourcerer]

Speaking of which. Just the other day I found out I could do this in nginx:

gzip_types text/* application/*+xml;