I'm finishing up a new website (http://www.guitar-dude.com/newsite), and found out about gzip. I found a gzip class file (http://leknor.com) and it seems to work fine, but...

Everyone who looks at it other than me sees a blank white page. What can I do?

1) Couldn't I just use <?php ob_start('ob_gzhandler'); ?> ?
2) What do I have to enable to make it work?

    interesting what i get when i refresh:


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    Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
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    lmao, Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
    hhahahaha, 1981

    okay yeah anyways, i've never used gzip before, but i think you
    have to store/cache the site on the server so the people can use
    that info? i dunno, just guessing

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