Wednesday November 27, 2002

Cool! Textism passed on a great tip to help reduce the bandwidth needed to serve up web pages. If you are running a browser that can handle it (most new ones?) this page is first compressed before being sent over the wire to you. Which means that instead of waiting for 18k of HTML mumbo-jumbo to make it through your modem it ends up being closer to 5k. It's a one-liner:

<?php ob_start("ob_gzhandler"); ?>