Apache handles gzipping just fine. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_deflate.html > and my PHP handles static file serving only when needed, when evaluating content and js for specific URLs I'm not sure why that would be required. Why doesn't the HTML reference the assets required directly? > and for noobish developers it might be very convenient to add this to php readfile() afterall Convenient and right are often two different ways to solve a problem. I try to not offer convenient solutions that are not right. --jk > On Aug 27, 2016, at 3:04 PM, Rene Veerman <rene.veerman.netherlands@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > yea ok.. "something upstream".. is that nginx easy to stack above / next to / under apache2? i'm really used to apache2.. > and for noobish developers it might be very convenient to add this to php readfile() afterall.. > > and my PHP handles static file serving only when needed, when evaluating content and js for specific URLs to fit in a common HTML site template for instance.. > you know of a better way? i'm all ears :) > >> On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 9:00 PM, Joshua Kehn <josh.kehn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Why is PHP handling static file serving? This is squarely outside of it's domain. Have nginx or something upstream handle gzipping content. >> >> --jk >> >> > On Aug 27, 2016, at 1:22 PM, Rene Veerman <rene.veerman.netherlands@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > eh no, i'm a big fan of caching output in js / json cache files :) >> > but those still need to get gzipped... not just my main JS file, also my >> > photoalbum contents -> another 1Mb of JSON content... >> > >> > On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Ashley Sheridan <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> > wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> On 27 August 2016 17:52:48 BST, Rene Veerman <rene.veerman.netherlands@ >> >> gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi.. >> >>> >> >>> First off, i love PHP. Many thanks for keeping it free too. >> >>> >> >>> However, i've noticed that gzipping the 1Mb of javascript that my >> >>> seductiveapps.com needs, takes a relatively long time (measured over a >> >>> total page load time which i'd like to bring down from it's current 10 >> >>> seconds, about a second or even more is spent gzipping (by a core i5 >> >>> machine)).. >> >> >> >> Are you building the js each time it's requested? Have you thought about >> >> building it as a deployment step for production? >> >> >> >>> >> >>> At one time, i spent time building PHP code that cached the >> >>> already-gzipped >> >>> content and outputted that with just readfile().. But i never got it to >> >>> work a second time, unfortunately.. >> >> Why don't you want the web server to handle the gzip side of things? It >> >> would make more sense surely? >> >> >> >>> Could you pretty please add this to the core of PHP? Shouldn't be that >> >>> hard >> >>> for the internals team right?.. >> >>> >> >>> Many thanks in advance for even considering to do this.. >> >>> >> >>> with regards, >> >>> Rene Veerman, >> >>> CEO + CTO of seductiveapps.com >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. >> >> >
