Does httpZip recompress every page upon request?
Not unless you want it to. Otherwise, httpZip serves pre-compressed files from its built-in cache directory and compresses content only when it changes. This significantly improves server performance over other comparable products that do not have a built-in cache for compressed pages. The value of using such a cache is enhanced transmission speeds and reduced server loads. It is worth adding that httpZip features an in-memory compressed content cache, which means faster access to cached content than on a disk cache. httpZip’s compression cache also has an option for the caching of dynamic compressed files like ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, Perl, PHP, and JSP. If you have dynamic files with unique query strings or cookie values, you will be able to safely cache compressed versions of these files. If you do not have query string- or cookie value-unique dynamic pages, do not use this option. You will find these options under the Caching tab of the httpZip Settings Manager. httpZip also provi
