search engines [was Re: [Mod_gzip] Mod Gzip]

[Terry Ford]

Actually, here's an interesting question:

Are gzipped pages still easily spidered by search
engines?  Is it true that mod_gzip will detect that
these agents don't have compression and will therefore
send the normal uncompressed content to them?

Terry

--- Terry Ford <shattererofwords@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the speedy replies.
> 
> In fact, the info at the bottom of "Changelog" is
> precisely what I needed (maybe breaking that stuff
> out
> into a separate "Installation" read me would be a
> good
> idea for future releases.).
> 
> This is all incredibly impressive.  My site
> (funtrivia.com) gets fairly heavy traffic (11
> million+
> pageviews/month) and the bandwidth costs have been
> quickly rising.  I have the compression running
> site-wide now (all html, all cgi, php, cfml pages)
> and
> the server load has not risen much at all.  
> 
> Are there any notable downsides that I am yet to
> discover?  Right now this looks to be all gain and
> no
> pain.  Significantly faster pages, lower bandwidth,
> minimal server impact.
> 
> Thanks for the work you folks have put into this,
> Terry
> 
> 
> --- Daniel <dcarter5@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Terry,
> > 
> > It should be 
> > 
> > "LoadModule mod_gzip modules/mod_gzip.so"
> > 
> > not
> > 
> > "LoadModule mod_gzip /modules/mod_gzip.so"
> > 
> > Have you added as well "AddModule mod_gzip.c"
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Dan
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