[Grok-dev] Enable gzip/http compression in Grok/Zope site

Mon Aug 2 13:10:19 EDT 2010

Thank you for your answer...

The problem is that I'm using Jetty and it doesn't seem to work as expected...

I'll keep looking! Thank you again

2010/8/2 Danny Navarro <j at dannynavarro.net>:
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Hector Blanco <white.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello everyone...
>>
>> I would like to know how I can send compressed data from my server
>> (using Grok/Zope3).
>
> HTTP compression should be done by the HTTP server. For Apache, for
> example, you can enable mod_deflate in the Apache configuration file.
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_deflate.html
>
> I think most distros have it enabled by default.
>
>>
>> I am using TAL templates to generate the HTML. For instance:
>>
>> (template in file test.pt)
>> -----------------------------------
>> <html>
>>        <head>
>>                <title>TEST</title>
>>                <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" tal:attributes="href
>> static/css/forms.css" />
>>                <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" tal:attributes="href
>> static/css/layout.css" />
>>                <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" tal:attributes="href
>> static/css/nav-horizontal.css" />
>>                <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" tal:attributes="href
>> static/css/plugins.css" />
>>                <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" tal:attributes="href
>> static/css/tools.css" />
>>                <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" tal:attributes="href
>> static/css/typo.css" />
>>                <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" tal:attributes="href
>> static/css/colorpicker.css" />
>>
>>                <script type="text/javascript" tal:attributes="src
>> static/js/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script>
>>                <script type="text/javascript" tal:attributes="src
>> static/zjs/myutil.js"></script>
>>                <script type="text/javascript" tal:attributes="src
>> static/zjs/myincludes.js"></script>
>> -----------------------------------
>>
>> When the user goes to: http://127.0.0.1:8080/my-application/test ,
>> this is handled in app.py by:
>>
>> class Test(grok.View):
>>        grok.context(Grokserver)
>>        grok.require('viewsite')
>>
>> I would like to know if I can easily send some (or all) of the
>> information compressed in gzip. The information generated by the
>> template is huge, and any compression would be helpful.
>>
>> If I could get to send the .js files compressed with gzip, it would be
>> a great improvement (or even better: if I can send the "test" page in
>> gzip)
>>
>> I've been googling a lot and I haven't seen any good way to send
>> compressed data.
>>
>> Thank you in advance!
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>
>
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