>> 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.
Hi Matt, It doesn't sound like there's a simple solution to my blank line problem. I wonder what kind of nasty side effects I might run into from the handoff you described. I need to give your 4 points some more thought.
>> (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.
Have you used mod_security yourself?
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