Gzip compression and Transfer-Encoding

[Dave Cheney]

>>
>> The way lighttpd does it is to have a small buffer, 8k by default
>> where the compressed representation is sent. If the compressed body
>> fits in this buffer completely then the content-length is known,
>> otherwise chunked encoding is activated and compression continues in
>> 8k blocks (i think).
>
> Do you mean modern lighty gzipping filter ?

Yup.

http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/Mod_Deflate

Cheers

Dave