Hello Monks!

I have an old cgi that I don't currently have time to re-write into our new library that would gzip all the output as the existing program does not know how to gzip the output.

The cgi get's 1000's of views a day and of course not being gzipped output, the bandwidth usage is wasteful! It's also slower loading for the visitor (of course!)

Is there a small perl program that maybe I could name the same as the existing cgi, rename the old cgi to something else, and then all the calls to that cgi it's stdout would be gzipped and sent via the perl script?

The server is Apache 2 if that helps

Thanks in advance

In reply to Wrapper to Gzip CGI output by itsscott

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