phil ringnalda : Unpolluted!

Unpolluted!

Nice to know that Joseph Walton’s uber-geeky Unpolluted script to check compression, cacheability and conditional requests on something like an RSS feed gives me a clean bill of health.

Oh, okay: it does now, after I cleaned up after myself by adding

mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/xml$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/atom\+xml$
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType application/xml "access plus 30 minutes"
ExpiresByType application/atom+xml "access plus 30 minutes"

to my .htaccess file. Oddly enough, when I tried the other Google-recommended way of telling mod_gzip to add things, file \.xml$, it ignored me. Dunno why.

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Comment by Jacques Distler #

2004-09-12 19:59:12

With mod_deflate (Apache 2.0), the syntax looks like

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
DeflateFilterNote ratio
DeflateCompressionLevel 5
 AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/* application/xhtml+xml application/xml
    application/postscript image/svg+xml
</IfModule>

I thought mod_gzip looked similar, but it’s been a long time …

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Comment by Phil Ringnalda #

2004-09-12 20:10:38

It may very well look quite similar: I was only looking for what I needed to add in .htaccess to the existing support for mod_gzip that mine host has in httpd.conf, so that it would compress my feeds. Guess I should go looking for the proper docs, since they’re horrible to find at the moment, and in need of some linky-love.

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Comment by Scott Johnson #

2004-09-25 03:36:11

Phil,

I ran into the same problem with the filename-based filters, but thanks to your docs here, I was able to easily get green all across the Unpolluted board on my feeds. Sweet. :-D

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