Shoutbox

U should considder using gzip to speed up the transfer of pages and to save bandwidth.

You can save over 80%

http://shoutbox.menthix.net/ is not gzipped

Page Size: 27 K
Size if Gzipped: 4 K
Potential Savings: 85.19%

It's not really needed for people with fast connections but it would surely be a lot better for 56K'ers. It takes the main page 10 seconds to load right now.

I know the CPU load will increase because it has to compress all the pages, but I don't think it will increase too much.

Agreed.

Useful.

thats an idea to do if DZ actually Puts MyBB  1.00 Final on

It can be done now, theres an option in the Admin CP.

Do it do it! This would probably help alot of people on slow connections so I agree....very good idea.

imao they nver had this feature on? there must be a reason

I think it's because the current build RC2 does not have gzip compatibilty, but it can be build in easily with PHP or Apache.

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Originally posted by Ezra
I think it's because the current build RC2 does not have gzip compatibilty, but it can be build in easily with PHP or Apache.

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They are [I think] installing an upgrade soon [forum latest version] which will have it therefore I doubt they are going to code one but sitll!

there's no need for coding

Just insert one line at the top of your header file and voila... all the files that include that file will be gzipped.

code:

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<? ob_start("ob_gzhandler"); ?>

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This board does support gzip, and we used to have it enabled. However, it caused dodgy problems for some viewers, and I'm not sure if those issues were ever solved.

I think surfi or wj disabled it sometime in March or April 2004; I dunno why. Anyway, bandwidth doesn't really matter on this server because it's free.