DISQUS

Newest Industry: Weblogs.com Not Using HTTP Compression

  • Randy Charles Morin · 4 years ago
    Unfortunately, most clients don't support it, so it really wouldn't make much of a difference.
  • smp · 4 years ago




    All major browsers, and most recent proxy servers do handle compressed content very well.



    This myth has lasted since the Netscape days, and was solidified by a broken version of MSIE many years ago.



    IT IS UNTRUE!



    We busted a major Canadian bank that was not allowing any version of MSIE to be sent compressed content. But they happily sent compressed content to Firefox and Opera.



    Content Compression works. Do it.
  • Randy Charles Morin · 4 years ago
    Unfortunately, the load at Weblogs.com is not browsers, it's people writing PHP using HTTP clients that don't.