Forum OpenACS Development: gzip encoding under aolserver 40r10

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1: gzip encoding under aolserver 40r10
Posted by Mark Aufflick on 05/11/08 11:07 AM
I am aware that nsd 4.5 has gzip support, and I have been happily using rlreturnz under aolserver3.3 for a long time, but I recently wanted to add gzip encoding to a 40r10 site.

The simplest solution I came up with was Jeff Davis' nsreturnz, which seems to be newer than the nsreturnz in aolserver cvs. It's not linked from the xarg website pages, but is hosted there - see the following mailing list archive for more:

[AOLSERVER] encoding aware nsreturnz

Since 40r10 is specifically in common use with oacs I thought I'd ask here if others have different/better approaches.

Note that this is for gzip compressing live content. I recently posted on efficiently serving pre-compressed static content with apache:

HOWTO: serve pre-compressed /resource/ files directly from your apache proxy

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2: Re: gzip encoding under aolserver 40r10 (response to 1)
Posted by Mark Aufflick on 05/11/08 11:12 AM
I meant to mention that to compile the above nsreturnz under 40r10 you need to modify the Makefile to read:

CFLAGS = -I$(NSHOME)/nsd

instead of:

CFLAGS =

and add the line:

AOLSERVER=$(NSHOME)

after NSHOME is set.

and then build with:

make install INST=/usr/local/aolserver40r10

substituting your relevant install directory