Other ressources
Sadly, arrowremotecommunications.com who had originally published mod_gzip have turned away from this product during the year 2002 and removed their product pages from their server. Therefore I have removed nearly all links to their pages from my documents as well.
Sources for mod_gzip 1.3.x.
- enThe new arrowhome page of the mod_gzip project from version 1.3.19.2a on
- enA port of arrowmod_gzip 1.3.19.1a for OS/2
Besides this, Günter Knauf provides precompiled versions for certain OS platforms:
Sources for mod_gzip 2.0.x
Günter Knauf adapts some existing version of mod_gzip 2.0.x (that has forked from the Apache 1.3 version's development tree a long time ago) to the current Apache version:
Documentation about mod_gzip
The most detailled documentation about mod_gzip known to me is the one you are currently reading. It is also part of the mod_gzip download package and thus might be considered as the 'official' documentation.
- enOfficial arrowmailing list for mod_gzip
- enThe arrowmod_gzip with SSL mini howto by Tim Behrendsen, a posting to the mod_gzip mailing list
- enarrowHTTP Compression Speeds up the Web, an extensive article about HTTP compression in general and mod_gzip in particular
- enarrowmod_gzip Komprimierungsmodul, a (german!) article by Mindjuggler about installation and configuration of mod_gzip focussing some special operational fields (SSL, Tomcat, BEA Weblogic Plugin)
Supplementary programs for mod_gzip
- enProject page for arrow
mgzta, my own traffic evaluation program for mod_gzip - enHome page for arrow
mgstat, another traffic evaluation program for mod_gzip - enarrowHTTP trace - my own online script for viewing header contents being sent and received during a HTTP request
- enarrowmod_gzip Test - some PHP script computing and displaying the volume savings of a gzip compressed HTTP ressource
Other HTTP compression solutions
- enarrow
mod_deflate- a standard module for compression of served HTTP content (for Apache 2.0 only) - enarrow
gzip_cnc- my own compressing solution (implemented as Perl CGI script, embedded as Apache handler)
Further Reading
- enarrowSpeed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization - a book by Andrew B. King about different methods for optimizing ressources (tuning of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, graphics, multimedia) and transport procedures (compression, caching) to speed up the transfer of web content
- enarrowwww.webperformance.org - Stephen Pierzchala maintains a collection of articles and links about the topic 'compression of web contents'
- enarrowApache, Compression and Bandwidth - an overview about several HTTP compression tools for Apache and IIS
- enarrowSimple Test of Compressing HTML Using ZLib - a W3C article about why XHTML can be compressed more effectively than HTML
- enarrowWeb Content Compression FAQ - a collection of hints and FAQs about Web compression
(Michael Schröpl, 2005年03月13日)