Clueless in CompressionLand

StewardManscat

Just has to restore my local system after a crash: backups are never quite what you hope...

XP SP2
Apache 2.0
php 4.3.11

The following code snippet is from vb3. Sadly, it returns nothing. When I bypass it, I get my expected page. So I'm thinking I have not properly installed or enabled some compression handler.

Yet I have a live working site. When I compare php.ini/phpinfo I can spot no difference.

Just fishing for obvious clues from any wayward gurus...? The encoding is "gzip" and $returntext is a large string of compressed goo.

			header('Content-Encoding: ' . $encoding);

		if (false AND function_exists('gzencode') AND PHP_VERSION > '4.2')
		{
			$returntext = gzencode($text, $level);
		}
		else
		{
			$size = strlen($text);
			$crc = crc32($text);

			$returntext = "\x1f\x8b\x08\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xff";
			$returntext .= substr(gzcompress($text, $level), 2, -4);
			$returntext .= pack('V', $crc);
			$returntext .= pack('V', $size);
		}

Many thanks in advance.

drew010

it looks like they have a function to send a compressed version of the page back to the user if their browser sends an "Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate" header to the webserver. There is an apache module that does this, mod_gzip. I suppose it wouldnt cause any harm to just bypass it if bandwidth isnt an issue on your forum. With hundreds of thousands of hits a day it can help but on something smaller it wont have too much effect. But it is strange why it wont work anymore, that I cant think of a reason why.