cURL Tip: Check that the Apache Compression (gzip, deflate) is Working - Comment Page: 1
This is a quick method with using cURL to check that Apache Compression with mod_gzip and mod_deflate is working. Only the remote server headers are needed.
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Check that the Apache Compression is Working
Get headers
curl -I -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate' http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com
-I option which will make just HEAD request to server and get headers.
-H option add header for accecpt content-encondig gzip and deflate.
Check headers
### Working ###
[...]
Content-Encoding: gzip
[...]
### Working ###
[...]
Content-Encoding: deflate
[...]
### Not working ###
[...]
[...]
If gzip or deflate found from headers then...
using GET from libwww-perl accomplishes the same:
$ GET -Used -H ‘Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate’ http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com
GET http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
User-Agent: lwp-request/5.827 libwww-perl/5.833
200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 14:08:58 GMT
Server: cloudflare-nginx
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
CF-RAY: 821461943d802fe
Client-Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 14:08:58 GMT
Client-Peer: 108.162.205.105:80
Client-Response-Num: 1
Client-Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Set-Cookie: __cfduid=df093f70060aed36cb454e9167973aa341371823737; expires=Mon, 23-Dec-2019 23:50:00 GMT; path=/; domain=.if-not-true-then-false.com
X-CF-Powered-By: WP 1.3.9
X-Pingback: http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/xmlrpc.php
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.16
PS: your WP version seems a bit old, but I do not know anything about WP, just checked their site and as of 21 june 2013, the latest advertised is 3.5.1 and there is quite a big fat warning about the rest not being safe to use.
Hi oxtan,
Yes this is one method to get same info, thanks for sharing.
Actually this WP 1.3.9 have nothing to do with WordPress version…it just CloudFlare plugin version. :)
With the generic cUrl, you have to write the string double quoted.
“www.mywebsite.com”
Sorry!
Thanks for that!!