Octavian Rasnita wrote: Would it be a better idea to use Apache's modules for > compression? Probably. Perl Compress::Zlib is generic, whereas mod_deflate (which does gzip, despite the name) is web-aware. If you use the perl, then you have to worry about dealing with HTTP yourself, including negotiating with browsers and setting response headers. -- Nick Kew --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx