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.IX Title "CGI::Compress::Gzip 3"
.TH CGI::Compress::Gzip 3 "2008-10-18" "perl v5.36.1" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
CGI::Compress::Gzip \- CGI with automatically compressed output
.SH "LICENSE"
.IX Header "LICENSE"
Copyright 2006\-2007 Clotho Advanced Media, Inc., <cpan@clotho.com>
.PP
Copyright 2007\-2008 Chris Dolan <cdolan@cpan.org>
.PP
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
.Vb 1
\& use CGI::Compress::Gzip;
\&
\& my $cgi = new CGI::Compress::Gzip;
\& print $cgi\->header();
\& print "<html> ...";
.Ve
.PP
See the \s-1CAVEATS\s0 section below!
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
CGI::Compress::Gzip extends the \s-1CGI\s0 module to auto-detect whether the
client browser wants compressed output and, if so and if the script
chooses \s-1HTML\s0 output, apply gzip compression on any content header for
\&\s-1STDOUT.\s0 This module is intended to be a drop-in replacement for
\&\s-1CGI\s0.pm.
.PP
Apache mod_perl users may wish to consider the Apache::Compress or
Apache::GzipChain modules, which allow more transparent output
compression than this module can provide. However, as of this writing
those modules are more aggressive about compressing, regardless of
Content-Type.
.SS "Headers"
.IX Subsection "Headers"
At the time that a header is requested, CGI::Compress::Gzip checks the
\&\s-1HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING\s0 environment variable (passed by Apache). If this
variable includes the flag \*(L"gzip\*(R" and the outgoing mime-type is
\&\*(L"text/*\*(R", then gzipped output is preferred. [the default mime-type
selection of text/* can be changed by subclassing \*(-- see below] The
header is altered to add the \*(L"Content-Encoding: gzip\*(R" flag which
indicates that compression is turned on.
.PP
Naturally, it is crucial that the \s-1CGI\s0 application output nothing
before the header is printed. If this is violated, things will go
badly.
.SS "Compression"
.IX Subsection "Compression"
When the header is created, this module sets up a new filehandle to
accept data. \s-1STDOUT\s0 is redirected through that filehandle. The new
filehandle passes data verbatim until it detects the end of the \s-1CGI\s0
header. At that time, it switches over to Gzip output for the
remainder of the \s-1CGI\s0 run.
.PP
Note that the Zlib library on which this code is ultimately based
requires a fileno for the output filehandle. Where the output
filehandle is faked (i.e. in mod_perl), we instead use in-memory
compression. This is more wasteful of \s-1RAM,\s0 but it is the only
solution I've found (and it is one shared by the Apache::* compression
modules).
.PP
Debugging note: if you set \fB\f(CB$CGI::Compress::Gzip::global_give_reason\fB\fR
to a true value, then this module will add an \s-1HTTP\s0 header entry called
\&\fBX\-non-gzip-reason\fR with an explanation of why it chose not to gzip
the output stream.
.SS "Buffering"
.IX Subsection "Buffering"
The Zlib library introduces latencies. In some cases, this module may
delay output until the \s-1CGI\s0 object is garbage collected, presumably at
the end of the program. This buffering can be detrimental to
long-lived programs which are supposed to have incremental output,
causing browser timeouts. To compensate, compression is automatically
disabled when autoflush (i.e. the $| variable) is set to true. Future
versions may try to enable autoflushing on the Zlib filehandles, if
possible [Help wanted].
.SH "CLASS METHODS"
.IX Header "CLASS METHODS"
.ie n .IP "$pkg\->new([\s-1CGI ARGS\s0])" 4
.el .IP "\f(CW$pkg\fR\->new([\s-1CGI ARGS\s0])" 4
.IX Item "$pkg->new([CGI ARGS])"
Create a new object. This resets the environment before creating a
\&\s-1CGI\s0.pm object. This should not be called more than once per script
run! All arguments are passed to the parent class.
.ie n .IP "$pkg\->useCompression($boolean)" 4
.el .IP "\f(CW$pkg\fR\->useCompression($boolean)" 4
.IX Item "$pkg->useCompression($boolean)"
.PD 0
.ie n .IP "$self\->useCompression($boolean)" 4
.el .IP "\f(CW$self\fR\->useCompression($boolean)" 4
.IX Item "$self->useCompression($boolean)"
.PD
This can be used as a class method or an instance method. The former
is included for backward compatibility, and is \s-1NOT\s0 recommended. As a
class method, this changes the default value. As an instance method
it affects only the specified instance.
.Sp
Turn compression on/off for the target. If turned on, compression
will be used only if the prerequisite compression libraries are
available and if the client browser requests compression.
.Sp
Defaults to on.
.SH "INSTANCE METHODS"
.IX Header "INSTANCE METHODS"
.ie n .IP "$self\->useFileHandle($filehandle)" 4
.el .IP "\f(CW$self\fR\->useFileHandle($filehandle)" 4
.IX Item "$self->useFileHandle($filehandle)"
Manually set the output filehandle. Because of limitations of Zlib,
this \s-1MUST\s0 be a real filehandle (with valid results from \fBfileno()\fR) and
not a pseudo filehandle like IO::String.
.Sp
If this is not set, \s-1STDOUT\s0 is used.
.ie n .IP "$self\->isCompressibleType($content_type)" 4
.el .IP "\f(CW$self\fR\->isCompressibleType($content_type)" 4
.IX Item "$self->isCompressibleType($content_type)"
Given a \s-1MIME\s0 type (with possible charset attached), return a boolean
indicating if this media type is a good candidate for compression.
This implementation is simply:
.Sp
.Vb 1
\& return $type =~ /^text\e//;
.Ve
.Sp
Subclasses may wish to override this method to apply different
criteria.
.ie n .IP "$self\->header([\s-1HEADER ARGS\s0])" 4
.el .IP "\f(CW$self\fR\->header([\s-1HEADER ARGS\s0])" 4
.IX Item "$self->header([HEADER ARGS])"
Overrides the \f(CW\*(C`header()\*(C'\fR method in \s-1CGI\s0.
.Sp
Return a \s-1CGI\s0 header with the compression flags set properly. Returns
an empty string is a header has already been printed.
.Sp
This method engages the Gzip output by fiddling with the default
output filehandle. All subsequent output via usual Perl \fBprint()\fR will
be automatically gzipped except for this header (which must go out as
plain text).
.Sp
Any arguments will be passed on to CGI::header. This method should
\&\s-1NOT\s0 be called if you don't want your header or \s-1STDOUT\s0 to be fiddled
with.
.ie n .IP "$self\->\s-1\fBDESTROY\s0()\fR" 4
.el .IP "\f(CW$self\fR\->\s-1\fBDESTROY\s0()\fR" 4
.IX Item "$self->DESTROY()"
Override the \s-1CGI\s0 destructor so we can close the Gzip output stream, if
there is one open.
.SH "CAVEATS"
.IX Header "CAVEATS"
.SS "Apache::Registry"
.IX Subsection "Apache::Registry"
Under Apache::Registry, global variables may not go out of scope in
time. This may causes timing bugs, since this module makes use of
the \s-1\fBDESTROY\s0()\fR method. To avoid this issue, make sure your \s-1CGI\s0
object is stored in a scoped variable.
.PP
.Vb 5
\& # BROKEN CODE
\& use CGI::Compress::Gzip;
\& $q = CGI::Compress::Gzip\->new;
\& print $q\->header;
\& print "Hello, world\en";
\&
\& # WORKAROUND CODE
\& use CGI::Compress::Gzip;
\& do {
\& my $q = CGI::Compress::Gzip\->new;
\& print $q\->header;
\& print "Hello, world\en";
\& }
.Ve
.SS "Filehandles"
.IX Subsection "Filehandles"
This module works by changing the default filehandle. It does not
change \s-1STDOUT\s0 at all. As a consequence, your programs should call
\&\f(CW\*(C`print\*(C'\fR without a filehandle argument.
.PP
.Vb 5
\& # BROKEN CODE
\& use CGI::Compress::Gzip;
\& my $q = CGI::Compress::Gzip\->new;
\& print STDOUT $q\->header;
\& print STDOUT "Hello, world\en";
\&
\& # WORKAROUND CODE
\& use CGI::Compress::Gzip;
\& my $q = CGI::Compress::Gzip\->new;
\& print $q\->header;
\& print "Hello, world\en";
.Ve
.PP
Future versions may steal away \s-1STDOUT\s0 and replace it with the
compression filehandle, but that seemed too risky for this version.
.SS "Header Munging"
.IX Subsection "Header Munging"
When sending compressed output, the \s-1HTTP\s0 headers must remain
uncompressed. So, this module goes to great effort to keep the
headers and body separate. That has led to \fBCGI::header()\fR emulation
code that is a little brittle. Most potential problems arise because
\&\s-1STDOUT\s0 gets tweaked as soon as \fBheader()\fR is called.
.PP
If you use the \s-1CGI\s0.pm \fBheader()\fR \s-1API\s0 as specified in \s-1CGI\s0.pm, then all
should go well. But if you do anything unusual, this module may
break. For example:
.PP
.Vb 5
\& # BROKEN CODE
\& use CGI::Compress::Gzip;
\& my $q = CGI::Compress::Gzip\->new;
\& print "Set\-Cookie: foo=bar\en" . $q\->header;
\& print "Hello, world\en";
\&
\& # WORKAROUND 1 (preferred)
\& use CGI::Compress::Gzip;
\& my $q = CGI::Compress::Gzip\->new;
\& print $q\->header("\-Set_Cookie" => "foo=bar");
\& print "Hello, world\en";
\&
\& # WORKAROUND 2
\& use CGI::Compress::Gzip;
\& my $q = CGI::Compress::Gzip\->new;
\& print "Set\-Cookie: foo=bar\en";
\& print $q\->header;
\& print "Hello, world\en";
.Ve
.PP
Future versions could try to parse the header to look for its end rather
than insisting that the printed version match the version returned by
\&\fBheader()\fR. Patches would be very welcome.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
CGI::Compress::Gzip depends on \s-1CGI\s0 and IO::Zlib. Similar
functionality is available from mod_gzip, Apache::Compress or
Apache::GzipChain, however all of those require changes to the
webserver configuration.
.SH "AUTHOR"
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Chris Dolan
.PP
This module was originally developed by me at Clotho Advanced Media
Inc. Now I maintain it in my spare time.
.SH "ACKNOWLEDGMENTS"
.IX Header "ACKNOWLEDGMENTS"
Clotho greatly appreciates the assistance and feedback the community
has extended to help refine this module.
.PP
Thanks to Rhesa Rozendaal who noticed the \-Type omission in v0.17.
.PP
Thanks to Laga Mahesa who did some Windows testing and
experimentation.
.PP
Thanks to Slaven Rezic who 1) found several header handling bugs, 2)
discovered the Apache::Registry and Filehandle caveats, 3) provided a
patch incorporated into v0.17, and 4) persisted with smoke tests that
reproduced the envvar problem fixed in v0.23.
.PP
Thanks to Jan Willamowius who found a header handling bug.
.PP
Thanks to Andreas J. Koenig and brian d foy for module naming advice.
.SH "HELP WANTED"
.IX Header "HELP WANTED"
If you like this module, please help by testing on Windows or in a
\&\f(CW\*(C`FastCGI\*(C'\fR environment, since I have neither available for easy testing.
.PP
Personally, I don't use this module much anymore as all of my work is on
Catalyst and mod_perl now.