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Default GZIP compression settings changes during PHP 5?

Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 2:21 pm
by JAB Creations
I haven't messed with the GZIP settings for my site for maybe almost a year now and now (since it was working just fine) though now I've noticed pages are not compressed! Yet when I was dealing with issues on a hosted site his page had no GZIP compression in place yet it was compressed! I have not changed anything related to compression in PHP or Apache. I can only currently conclude that either a default setting in PHP was changed (where having ob_start("ob_gzhandler"); and ob_end_flush(); remove compression for some strange reason) or the Web Developer toolbar is giving me wrong readings? Thoughts?

Re: Default GZIP compression settings changes during PHP 5?

Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 2:54 pm
by JAB Creations
Actually after doing some tests (with and without the .htaccess file) and with and without GZIP compression declared (as in my O.P.) both on my local and live servers everything seems to be working fine so the issue is with the Web Developer toolbar not properly reporting the compression. One page uncompressed had a size of 50881 bytes and a compressed size of 11799 bytes which it clearly failed to display.