Apache/Dynagzip version 0.16 ============================ mod_perl extension for Apache-1.3.X to compress the response with gzip format. ABSTRACT This Apache handler provides dynamic content compression of the response data stream for HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 requests. Standard gzip compression is optionally combined with an extra light compression that eliminates leading blank spaces and/or blank lines within the source document. This C compression could be applied even when the client (browser) is not capable to decompress gzip format. This handler helps to compress the outbound HTML content usually by 3 to 20 times, and provides a list of useful features. This handler is particularly useful for compressing outgoing web content that is dynamically generated on the fly (using templates, DB data, XML, etc.), when at the time of the request it is impossible to determine the length of the document to be transmitted. Support for Perl, Java, and C source generators is provided. Besides the benefits of reduced document size, this approach gains efficiency from being able to overlap the various phases of data generation, compression, transmission, and decompression. In fact, the browser can start to decompress a document, which has not yet been completely generated. INSTALLATION The installation consists of the two steps: - Installation to your Perl Library - Configuration of your Apache Server Installation to your Perl Library --------------------------------- Use the regular procedure to install this module to your Perl Library. When you have your local copy of the package type the following: perl Makefile.PL make; make test make install Note: You should be a root to succeed with the last step... To install the package from the CPAN try to run perl -MCPAN -e "install Apache::Dynagzip" on your UNIX machine. Configuration of your Apache Server ----------------------------------- Read "Web Content Compression FAQ" at http://perl.apache.org/docs/tutorials/client/compression/compression.html Use the following examples in order to create your own configuration: ====================================================== Static html file (size=149208) no light compression: ====================================================== httpd.conf: PerlModule Apache::Dynagzip SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler Apache::Dynagzip client-side log: C05 --> S06 GET /html/wowtmovie.html HTTP/1.1 C05 --> S06 Accept: */* C05 --> S06 Referer: http://devl4.outlook.net/html/ C05 --> S06 Accept-Language: en-us C05 --> S06 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate C05 --> S06 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) C05 --> S06 Host: devl4.outlook.net C05 --> S06 Pragma: no-cache C05 --> S06 Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1 == Body was 0 bytes == C05 <-- S06 HTTP/1.1 200 OK C05 <-- S06 Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 17:36:57 GMT C05 <-- S06 Server: Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux mod_perl/1.26 C05 <-- S06 X-Module-Sender: Apache::Dynagzip C05 <-- S06 Transfer-Encoding: chunked C05 <-- S06 Expires: Friday, 31-May-2002 17:41:57 GMT C05 <-- S06 Vary: Accept-Encoding C05 <-- S06 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 C05 <-- S06 Content-Encoding: gzip C05 <-- S06 == Incoming Body was 9411 bytes == == Transmission: text gzip chunked == == Chunk Log == a (hex) = 10 (dec) 1314 (hex) = 4884 (dec) 3ed (hex) = 1005 (dec) 354 (hex) = 852 (dec) 450 (hex) = 1104 (dec) 5e6 (hex) = 1510 (dec) 0 (hex) = 0 (dec) == Latency = 0.170 seconds, Extra Delay = 0.440 seconds == Restored Body was 149208 bytes == ====================================================== Static html file (size=149208) with light compression: ====================================================== httpd.conf: PerlModule Apache::Dynagzip SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler Apache::Dynagzip PerlSetVar LightCompression On client-side log: C05 --> S06 GET /html/wowtmovie.html HTTP/1.1 C05 --> S06 Accept: */* C05 --> S06 Referer: http://devl4.outlook.net/html/ C05 --> S06 Accept-Language: en-us C05 --> S06 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate C05 --> S06 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) C05 --> S06 Host: devl4.outlook.net C05 --> S06 Pragma: no-cache C05 --> S06 Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1 == Body was 0 bytes == C05 <-- S06 HTTP/1.1 200 OK C05 <-- S06 Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 17:49:06 GMT C05 <-- S06 Server: Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux mod_perl/1.26 C05 <-- S06 X-Module-Sender: Apache::Dynagzip C05 <-- S06 Transfer-Encoding: chunked C05 <-- S06 Expires: Friday, 31-May-2002 17:54:06 GMT C05 <-- S06 Vary: Accept-Encoding C05 <-- S06 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 C05 <-- S06 Content-Encoding: gzip C05 <-- S06 == Incoming Body was 8515 bytes == == Transmission: text gzip chunked == == Chunk Log == a (hex) = 10 (dec) 119f (hex) = 4511 (dec) 3cb (hex) = 971 (dec) 472 (hex) = 1138 (dec) 736 (hex) = 1846 (dec) 0 (hex) = 0 (dec) == Latency = 0.280 seconds, Extra Delay = 0.820 seconds == Restored Body was 128192 bytes == Default values for the minChunkSizeSource and minChunkSize will be in effect in this case. To overwrite them try for example PerlModule Apache::Dynagzip SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler Apache::Dynagzip PerlSetVar minChunkSizeSource 36000 PerlSetVar minChunkSize 9 =============================================================================== GET dynamically generated (by perl script) html file with no light compression: =============================================================================== httpd.conf: PerlModule Apache::Filter PerlModule Apache::Dynagzip SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler Apache::RegistryFilter Apache::Dynagzip PerlSetVar Filter On PerlSendHeader Off PerlSetupEnv On AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks Order allow,deny Allow from all client-side log: C05 --> S06 GET /perl/start_example.cgi HTTP/1.1 C05 --> S06 Accept: image/gif, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */* C05 --> S06 Accept-Language: en-us C05 --> S06 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate C05 --> S06 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) C05 --> S06 Host: devl4.outlook.net C05 --> S06 Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1 == Body was 0 bytes == C05 <-- S06 HTTP/1.1 200 OK C05 <-- S06 Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2002 16:59:47 GMT C05 <-- S06 Server: Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux mod_perl/1.26 C05 <-- S06 X-Module-Sender: Apache::Dynagzip C05 <-- S06 Transfer-Encoding: chunked C05 <-- S06 Expires: Saturday, 01-June-2002 17:04:47 GMT C05 <-- S06 Vary: Accept-Encoding C05 <-- S06 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 C05 <-- S06 Content-Encoding: gzip C05 <-- S06 == Incoming Body was 758 bytes == == Transmission: text gzip chunked == == Chunk Log == a (hex) = 10 (dec) 2db (hex) = 731 (dec) 0 (hex) = 0 (dec) == Latency = 0.220 seconds, Extra Delay = 0.050 seconds == Restored Body was 1434 bytes == ============================================================================ GET dynamically generated (by perl script) html file with light compression: ============================================================================ httpd.conf: PerlModule Apache::Filter PerlModule Apache::Dynagzip SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler Apache::RegistryFilter Apache::Dynagzip PerlSetVar Filter On PerlSetVar LightCompression On PerlSendHeader Off PerlSetupEnv On AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks Order allow,deny Allow from all client-side log: C05 --> S06 GET /perl/start_example.cgi HTTP/1.1 C05 --> S06 Accept: */* C05 --> S06 Accept-Language: en-us C05 --> S06 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate C05 --> S06 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) C05 --> S06 Host: devl4.outlook.net C05 --> S06 Pragma: no-cache C05 --> S06 Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1 == Body was 0 bytes == C05 <-- S06 HTTP/1.1 200 OK C05 <-- S06 Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2002 17:09:13 GMT C05 <-- S06 Server: Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux mod_perl/1.26 C05 <-- S06 X-Module-Sender: Apache::Dynagzip C05 <-- S06 Transfer-Encoding: chunked C05 <-- S06 Expires: Saturday, 01-June-2002 17:14:14 GMT C05 <-- S06 Vary: Accept-Encoding C05 <-- S06 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 C05 <-- S06 Content-Encoding: gzip C05 <-- S06 == Incoming Body was 750 bytes == == Transmission: text gzip chunked == == Chunk Log == a (hex) = 10 (dec) 2d3 (hex) = 723 (dec) 0 (hex) = 0 (dec) == Latency = 0.280 seconds, Extra Delay = 0.000 seconds == Restored Body was 1416 bytes == In order to use your own handler (that might be generating its own HTTP headers) inside the Apache::Filter chain, make sure to register your handler with the Apache::Filter chain like $r->filter_register(); when necessary. See Apache::Filter documentation for details. ==================================================================================== GET dynamically generated (by C-written binary) html file with no light compression: ==================================================================================== httpd.conf: PerlModule Apache::Dynagzip SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler Apache::Dynagzip AllowOverride None Options +ExecCGI PerlSetupEnv On PerlSetVar BinaryCGI On Order allow,deny Allow from all client-side log: C05 --> S06 GET /cgi-bin/mylook.cgi HTTP/1.1 C05 --> S06 Accept: */* C05 --> S06 Accept-Language: en-us C05 --> S06 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate C05 --> S06 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) C05 --> S06 Host: devl4.outlook.net C05 --> S06 Pragma: no-cache C05 --> S06 Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1 == Body was 0 bytes == C05 <-- S06 HTTP/1.1 200 OK C05 <-- S06 Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 23:18:17 GMT C05 <-- S06 Server: Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux mod_perl/1.26 C05 <-- S06 X-Module-Sender: Apache::Dynagzip C05 <-- S06 Transfer-Encoding: chunked C05 <-- S06 Expires: Friday, 31-May-2002 23:23:17 GMT C05 <-- S06 Vary: Accept-Encoding C05 <-- S06 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 C05 <-- S06 Content-Encoding: gzip C05 <-- S06 == Incoming Body was 1002 bytes == == Transmission: text gzip chunked == == Chunk Log == a (hex) = 10 (dec) 3cf (hex) = 975 (dec) 0 (hex) = 0 (dec) == Latency = 0.110 seconds, Extra Delay = 0.110 seconds == Restored Body was 1954 bytes == ================================================================================= GET dynamically generated (by C-written binary) html file with light compression: ================================================================================= httpd.conf: PerlModule Apache::Dynagzip SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler Apache::Dynagzip AllowOverride None Options +ExecCGI PerlSetupEnv On PerlSetVar BinaryCGI On PerlSetVar LightCompression On Order allow,deny Allow from all client-side log: C05 --> S06 GET /cgi-bin/mylook.cgi HTTP/1.1 C05 --> S06 Accept: */* C05 --> S06 Accept-Language: en-us C05 --> S06 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate C05 --> S06 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) C05 --> S06 Host: devl4.outlook.net C05 --> S06 Pragma: no-cache C05 --> S06 Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1 == Body was 0 bytes == C05 <-- S06 HTTP/1.1 200 OK C05 <-- S06 Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 23:37:45 GMT C05 <-- S06 Server: Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux mod_perl/1.26 C05 <-- S06 X-Module-Sender: Apache::Dynagzip C05 <-- S06 Transfer-Encoding: chunked C05 <-- S06 Expires: Friday, 31-May-2002 23:42:45 GMT C05 <-- S06 Vary: Accept-Encoding C05 <-- S06 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 C05 <-- S06 Content-Encoding: gzip C05 <-- S06 == Incoming Body was 994 bytes == == Transmission: text gzip chunked == == Chunk Log == a (hex) = 10 (dec) 3c7 (hex) = 967 (dec) 0 (hex) = 0 (dec) == Latency = 0.170 seconds, Extra Delay = 0.110 seconds == Restored Body was 1862 bytes == DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules and libraries: Apache::Constants; Apache::File; Apache::Filter 1.019; Apache::Log; Apache::URI; Apache::Util; Fcntl; FileHandle; Compress::LeadingBlankSpaces; Compress::Zlib 1.16; Note 1: the Compress::Zlib 1.16 requires the Info-zip zlib 1.0.2 or better (it is NOT compatible with versions of zlib <= 1.0.1). The zlib compression library is available at http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ Note 2: it is recommended to have a mod_perl compiled with the EVERYTHING=1 switch. However, Apache::Dynagzip uses just fiew phases of the request processing flow: Content generation phase Logging phase AUTHOR Slava Bizyayev - Freelance Software Developer & Consultant. COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright (C) 2002 - 2004 Slava Bizyayev. All rights reserved. This package is free software. You can use it, redistribute it, and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The latest version of this module can be found on CPAN.