A ristretto, please!

If, as of this evening, sistrall seems a little more lively, it is thanks to the magic of PHP: a simple instruction at the head of each file is enough to compress the pages before sending them:

ob_start("ob_gzhandler");

That's it. And you can also do this at the beginning of style sheets (provided you specify the content-type correctly):

ob_start("ob_gzhandler");
header("Content-type: text/css");

And nothing forbids using the same method for scripts as well:

ob_start("ob_gzhandler");
header("Content-type: application/x-javascript");

To get the server to pass the pages to PHP before sending them, some small changes to the .htaccess file are needed. I have done this:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html .css .js

The traffic generated by sistrall pages is more than halved in this way. Not bad, right?