Gzip.how?

Yslow says to do it

[Br3nn4n]

Yslow extension for Firefox says to gzip my pages, and that none of my pages or images are.

So how do I do this? My host has to have it enabled on the server, right? But how do I then gzip my pages?

Do I have to send the header info, such as: "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate" ? Doesn't seem like I should have to, rather it should be doing it automatically...

Thanks!

[tedster]

Right, if mod_gzip (or Windows HTTP compression) is configured on the server, the only thing the site owner needs to do is to make sure their files don't use extensions that the server is not configured to compress.

Site search here will turn up even more information than you may need. Because compression is specific to the type of server, technical discussions should go into either our Apache [webmasterworld.com] or Windows IIS [webmasterworld.com] forums.

[Br3nn4n]

Ahh gotcha :) I'm on LAMP server (Debian/Apache) but I'm not sure if my host has the gzip mod installed. I have a support ticket in with them regarding it.