I would perfer to let apache handle it, however, I am not the Apache expert in my company, and the resident apache expert has not been able to get a working compliation of apache with mod_gzip. Without that, I'd like to do it in perl, and seems there must be a way to tell the browser that the content is zipped. if "mod_gzipp" can do it, there must be a way to do it with perl, i.e. a header that tells the browser to unzip the output.