[Zope-dev] RAMCacheManager and gzip

[Martijn Jacobs]

> There is zlib support in Python, and it is used in Medusa already. ZServer
> does not call it, but the compression stuff is there.
> 
> There is one good reason not to use zlib though, Micro$oft Internet
> Distorter does not support content-encoding: gzip and for content-encoding:
> compress it expects data to be compressed using the Unix compress tool... (I
> think someone reported this already... oh well)

Hmm, how does mod_gzip compress it then? In every request I get from IE 
includes the "accept-encoding: gzip" string, and apache is sending it
gzip-compressed back. Do you mean that the mod_gzip is compressing it
different then zlib?

mart(ijn)