GZIP and XP Incompatable?

[Floob]

Hi,

 

I'm trying to improve the performace od OSCommerce on our server and wanted to enable GZip - but when browsing the pages with XP - it tries to download default.php

 

It is fine with Windows 2000

 

Why is this?

 

Thanks

 

Floob.

[Floob]

Hi,

 

I'm trying to improve the performace od OSCommerce on our server and wanted to enable GZip - but when browsing the pages with XP - it tries to download default.php

 

It is fine with Windows 2000

 

Why is this?

 

Thanks

 

Floob.

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Anyone have any idea? Does anyone run Gzip and have problems browsing in XP?

[mhormann]

Well, it's been quite a time since I played around with that (on a phpBB2).

 

If I remember correctly, there WAS an issue when you set gzip on BOTH in your Apache AND the application. So I decided to only set gzip in Apache and NOT in the app and all was fine (gzipped).

 

Of course that means running Apache on your Windows server. The better choice anyway ;-) Actually, on Windows servers I tend to end up using Apache, BIND, the WAR ftpd, Mercury as mail server, and some others. All non-MS.

 

Just try it and see if your pages come over gzipped. (Provided that your browser understands and requests that format.)

 

Then again, I'm not quite sure if that is what you have in mind. And actually enabling gzip on a server doesn't improve its performance, it actually leaves the server with more work. But of course the pages transmit much faster and you can save a lot of bandwidth so the customers are happy about the spped.

 

HTH,

M.

[Guest]

As stated, it is a server issue. Microsoft GZIP compresses every page they serve so you should try looking there. In fact all Windows 2003 servers automatically compress pages.

 

Double compression (webserver and APP) is not a good idea if you use Internet Explorer because it can't handle it. Mozilla based browsers are better but they still get confused at times as well. If you have a choice between a webserver based handler and a script based handler, go with the webserver one. It will use less resources and be faster.