[Mod_gzip] Mod_gzip and mod_perl request handler

[Jann Linder]

I have several mod_perl scripts set up to be called (through a
request-handler in Apache) by doing the following:

http://sitename.com/THISSCRIPT

They are not being compressed, though--my guess is that due to the handler
being perl-script and not cgi-script and the URI NOT having a .html, etc.
So my question is will the following do it (repeating for each script name)

mod_gzip_item_include         file /THISSCRIPT
Or is it:
mod_gzip_item_include         file ^THISSCRIPT
or:
mod_gzip_item_include         file ^THISSCRIPT$
Or is it better to do:
mod_gzip_item_include         handler ^perl-script$
To get ALL Apache-request-handlers covered.

And if it is better to do the last one (handler), what happens when a .cgi
script which is already mapped using a FILE directive ALSO gets mapped using
a HANDLER directive.  Which one overrides (or, g*d forbid, does it attempt
to compress it twice? (I would not think so--mod_gzip HAS to be smarter than
that.)

I have mod_gzip set up as the following:

<IfModule mod_gzip.c>
mod_gzip_on                   Yes
mod_gzip_can_negotiate        Yes
mod_gzip_static_suffix        .gz
AddEncoding              gzip .gz
mod_gzip_update_static        No
#mod_gzip_command_version      '/mod_gzip_status'
mod_gzip_temp_dir             /tmp
mod_gzip_keep_workfiles       No
mod_gzip_minimum_file_size    500
mod_gzip_maximum_file_size    500000
mod_gzip_maximum_inmem_size   60000
mod_gzip_min_http             1000

mod_gzip_handle_methods        GET POST
#  Before version 1.3.19.2a this value was not configurable.)

mod_gzip_item_exclude         reqheader  "User-agent: Mozilla/4.0[678]"
mod_gzip_item_include         file       \.html$
mod_gzip_item_include         file       \.shtml$
mod_gzip_item_include         file       \.htm$
mod_gzip_item_include         file       \.shtm$
mod_gzip_item_include         file       \.php$
mod_gzip_item_include         file       \.phtml$
mod_gzip_item_exclude         file       \.js$
mod_gzip_item_exclude         file       \.css$
mod_gzip_item_include         file       \.pl$
mod_gzip_item_include         file       \.cgi$
mod_gzip_item_include         file       \.cgix$
mod_gzip_item_include         handler    ^cgi-script$
mod_gzip_item_include         mime       ^text/html$
mod_gzip_item_include         mime       ^text/plain$
mod_gzip_item_include         mime       ^httpd/unix-directory$
mod_gzip_item_exclude         mime       ^image/
mod_gzip_dechunk              Yes
mod_gzip_add_header_count     Yes
# The following Yes was changed to On per the newest doc changes
# submitted to the list in December:
mod_gzip_send_vary            On
</IfModule>

PS:  Rhetorical (or not): Has anyone noticed that MSIE 5.2.2 for OS X
(Jaguar 10.2) does NOT allow gzip content?  What is the deal?  MSIE for the
PC does!  Navigator and Mozilla do, so what is the story?  I really want to
use gzip all the time in my web server, but it does me as the developer no
good--I see no speed increase...grin (never mind my visitors---who cares
about them.  I just want to develop faster...[kidding])

--
Mr. Jann Linder
Director of Internet Development
DinnerBroker/Pricing Dynamics, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
1-888-iEATat8 x235