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Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:53:10 +0100
From: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
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Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Chunked + Gzip

On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:02:11 -0300
Michael Caplan <michael@eggplant.ws> wrote:

>  1. the gzip content encoding happens on the entire body before it is 
> chunked.
>  2. the ungzipping happens on the entire body after it is dechunked.

Exactly.

> If I got this right (which I don't think I do), the web server would 
> need to first dechunk data produced from a dynamic source (PHP)
> before it can apply the gzip content encoding.

Why would PHP want to concern itself with chunked encoding?  That's
the business of the webserver, not the application.

> Likewise, on the client end, it would only be able to begin
> interpreting HTML following receiving the entire chucked payload,
> dechunk it, and then ungzip it.

You don't need the entire contents to start displaying it.
Unless you rely on something whole-document, like parsing to a DOM.

> But, that seems contrary to what Apache + mod_deflate actually does,

What seems contrary?

Read up on the apache filter chain.  That's the basis for ordering
different encodings, and indeed other transformations from content
manipulation like SSI or XSLT through to SSL.

-- 
Nick Kew

Application Development with Apache - the Apache Modules Book
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