From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-05-17T16:10:21+09:00
Subject: Re: gzip cgi compression

On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 11:17:57PM +0900, Michael Campbell wrote:
> > 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
> 
> 
> Is "cat" necessary there, or am I missing something?  Would:
> 
> data = IO.popen("gzip -c /etc/motd", "r").read
> 
> not work?

No, I think you're right. I wrote it that way because I started using a
bidirectional pipe, then changed my mind when I realised I could pipe the
uncompressed data directly into gzip within IO.popen - but didn't optimise
it as far as yours :-)

Brian.