Grant wrote: >> As I understand it, the reason why you wish the whitespace to be reduced >> is so you look at the source within your browser, and that you plan to >> use mod_deflate later ro reduce bandwidth (which is surely not too much >> of a problem - it's probably equivalent to resampling a few of your >> images by 5% here and there, or optimising your caching!), but you can't >> reduce the whitespace inside your application logic (which is where the >> problem should be fixed) because you don't have control over the code. >> >> You have 3 (1,2,4) really good (performance neutral) options not >> mentioned so far, >> 1) use a whitespace stripping http proxy you run on your LAN >> 2) use mod security, removewhitespace in response body >> 3) use a rewrite rule to a reg exp based whitespace server-side script >> which serves each page of your application. >> 4) similar to (3) use an autoprepend rule to serve your white space >> laden pages through a reg exp based whitespace stripping script. >> >> I would probably go for 1,3 or 4, because they are so easy. >> >> (2) carries a performance hit, but use of mod security is highly >> regarded and I would say is an esssential part of protecting an >> application such as yours - one for which you do not own and cannot >> change the code. > > Thanks Matt. 3 and 4 sound interesting. How could I configure > something like that considering my <Location /> block: > > <Location /> > SetHandler perl-script > PerlResponseHandler Interchange::Link > PerlOptions +GlobalRequest > PerlSetVar InterchangeServer /path/to/socket > </Location> > > mod_security also sounds interesting. It's pretty tricky to set up > though? > > - Grant > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > sorry grant that should have been "Apache 2.0.26" not "Apache 2.0.46" for using AddOutputFilter DEFLATE pl -- Matthew Farey --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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