[Mod_gzip] Request Handling

[Christopher L. Everett]

Richards, Etienne (EM, PTL) wrote:

>All,
>
>Will mod_gzip compress content returned by an application server?
>
>We want the compression of application server content to be done on the web
>server and was hoping that mod_gzip would be able to do that. We know that
>we can do this on the application server by using a filter but we have power
>to spare on our web servers.
>
>Etienne
>
If your web servers are essentially proxies for your application servers,
then yes, you'll have no problems doing that.