[Zope-dev] Re: HTTP Compression granularity.

[Maik Jablonski]

Romain Slootmaekers wrote:
> browsing through the code, and the changelist for 2.6 I found the HTTP 
> compression feature. Apparently it's a thing you need to turn on in 
> ZPublisher.HTTPResponse by changing an option in the code. (yuk :()

That's wrong... You don't have to touch the sources for this trick.

> This makes it an all or nothing feature. I'd like to have more 
> granularity and want to be able to turn it on/off for all content in 
> specific folders.

You can enable HTTPCompression simply by calling

<dtml-call "RESPONSE.enableHTTPCompression(REQUEST)">

in your index_html for the desired folders.

Cheers, Maik