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By: Brad Ney

Brad Ney — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:56:44 +0000

Thanks for the find Jason!

Looks like some good information for those visitors still using IE6.. Oh how I wish they would upgrade.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:46:57 +0000

I also wanted to point out something I found out about enabling Gzip for IE6 pre- SP2:
http://www.virtuosimedia.com/tutorials/ultimate-ie6-cheatsheet-how-to-fix-25-internet-explorer-6-bugs#gzip-ie6

and

http://sebduggan.com/posts/ie6-gzip-bug-solved-using-isapi-rewrite

I haven’t yet tried it myself…but it looks promising.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:05:20 +0000

I’m having the same issue as these guys above me…I’ve installed YSlow in Firebug and it too thinks my compression isn’t enabled. I tried both Gzip and Zlib (both of which appear to be enabled in my phpinfo… but Gzip claims it isn’t when I enable it).

Not sure what to do…this isn’t a HUGE deal for me..but I was excited to implement it and perhaps I will need it in the future. I’m using IXWebhosting…which has be a little weird in the past, so it could just be my host. Anway, let me know if you can help; thanks for the informative article!

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Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:07:51 +0000

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By: Rockstar Sid

Rockstar Sid — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:28:36 +0000

Hey Brad,

Really sorry for not getting back to you on time and luckily have bookmarked this website now And, I did add the code but it showed uncompressed.. So, later I used this code in htaccess file and it worked for a while Don’t know why did it show uncompressed after an hour..

php_flag zlib.output_compression on
php_value zlib.output_compression_level 2

And, the last thing I did was enabling ’super cache compression’ in wp super cache plugin.. now the files are ‘compressed’ although I don’t know which one is the better.. zlib or super cache compression?

Thanks for the help!
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By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:48:53 +0000

Hi Brad
Found it and it says… enabled.
Will add the code to header later and test on the “port80″ software.
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By: Brad Ney

Brad Ney — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:56:16 +0000

Yeah, the PHPINFO command usually does that.. It displays everything PHP related to you!

Look for a section with the header “zlib” – In that section it should say “enabled”, if you cannot find it, contact me and I’ll take a look.

By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:07:52 +0000

Hi Brad
I uploaded the file with “” and got lots, and I mean lots, of info about my hosts PHP setup, but what in particular should I be looking for?

If I simply add the zlib code to my header and find that it doesn’t work… presumably I can simply remove it without causing any problems.
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By: Nezine

Nezine — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:04:08 +0000

This is really educational. Thanks, Brad. I will be looking into it.

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By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:50:15 +0000

Thanks Brad
That’s good news.
I’ll give it a try and hopefully report back with a super fast blog.

Happy new year – have a great 2010
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