RE: [syndication] General purpose scrapers and bandwidth

[Nick Lothian <nl@essential.com.au>]

> 
> >, and if you have PHP
> >compiled --with-zlib you'll also get gzip encoding for those 
> aggregators
> >that support it. Or, if your server has mod_gzip, add
> 
> The new server has zlib enabled in php and 
> zlib.output_compression on. I 
> wonder how many RSS readers actually support this and etags. 
> Presumably 
> anything based on curl will do it automatically. Probably 
> anything based 
> on dotnet as well.
> 

No such luck. Here's a list of aggregators that support gzip:

http://www.sauria.com/blog/2003/05/19#227

(You'll notice that .NET aggregators don't automatically - it needs coding.
Not that it is hard, but it needs to be specifically catered for)

Regards
  Nick Lothian