Serving gzipped CSS and JavaScript from Amazon CloudFront via S3

I’ve been looking for ways of making my site load faster and one way that I’d like to explore is making greater use of Cloudfront. Because Cloudfront was originally not designed as a custom-origin CDN and because it didn’t support gzipping, I have so far been using it to host all my images, which are … Read more

JavaScript implementation of Gzip [closed]

Closed. This question does not meet Stack Overflow guidelines. It is not currently accepting answers. We don’t allow questions seeking recommendations for books, tools, software libraries, and more. You can edit the question so it can be answered with facts and citations. Closed 6 years ago. Improve this question I’m writing a Web application that … Read more

Why use deflate instead of gzip for text files served by Apache?

What advantages do either method offer for html, css and javascript files served by a LAMP server. Are there better alternatives? The server provides information to a map application using Json, so a high volume of small files. See also Is there any performance hit involved in choosing gzip over deflate for http compression? 9 … Read more

How to gzip all files in all sub-directories into one compressed file in bash

Possible Duplicate: gzipping up a set of directories and creating a tar compressed file This post describes how to gzip each file individually within a directory structure. However, I need to do something slightly different. I need to produce one big gzip file for all files under a certain directory. I also need to be … Read more

Command Line Tool – Error – xcrun: error: unable to find utility “xcodebuild”, not a developer tool or in PATH

I am getting this error while building the SwiftJSON framework to the Some Xcode project through Carthage Dependency Manager. Sivaramaiahs-Mac-mini:GZipDemoApp vsoftMacmini5$ carthage update –platform iOS *** Fetching GzipSwift *** Fetching SwiftyJSON *** Checking out GzipSwift at “3.1.1” *** Downloading SwiftyJSON.framework binary at “3.1.3” *** xcodebuild output can be found in /var/folders/7m/y0r2mdhn0f16zz1nlt34ypzr0000gn/T/carthage-xcodebuild.apLXCc.log A shell task (/usr/bin/xcrun … Read more

TypeError: ‘str’ does not support the buffer interface

plaintext = input(“Please enter the text you want to compress”) filename = input(“Please enter the desired filename”) with gzip.open(filename + “.gz”, “wb”) as outfile: outfile.write(plaintext) The above python code is giving me following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File “C:/Users/Ankur Gupta/Desktop/Python_works/gzip_work1.py”, line 33, in <module> compress_string() File “C:/Users/Ankur Gupta/Desktop/Python_works/gzip_work1.py”, line 15, in compress_string outfile.write(plaintext) … Read more