From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-05-16T23:02:48+09:00
Subject: Re: gzip cgi compression

On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 10:40:00PM +0900, Dominik Werder wrote:
> > How are you running this? As a CGI under a webserver, or is there a Ruby 
> > TCP
> > server which is not shown?
> I'm running it with mod_ruby

Ah, that's not something I use. But I can trade you a working CGI:

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby -w
data = IO.popen("cat /etc/motd | gzip -c","r").read
puts "Content-Type: text/plain"
puts "Content-Encoding: gzip"
puts
print data

This works fine for me; at least Mozilla and Lynx both display the
uncompressed data. Maybe you can use this as a starting point to work out
how to do the same thing under mod_ruby.

Cheers,

Brian.