GZip testing

A nifty online test tool for GZIP compression testing, along with some sample codes and methods to enable GZIP compression for your site/pages. ;)

http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php
http://www.desilva.biz/php/zlib.html

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On Apache, if zlib is installed, we can use just a simple code snippet to enable GZIP compression:



Really simple right?

URI / URL Parsing Using RegExp in JavaScript

Sometime back when I was writing a web crawler in JavaScript, I had to parse URIs into their constituents. And for that task I modified Flog's URI Parser class for my needs.

Well, as part of the licensing, and for sharing of information, I thought I'd post the JavaScript code here.

function UriParser(uri){
//define class (for use with prototype.js) to do URI parsing
//modified from FlogUriParser found at http://www.flog.co.nz/index.php/journal/prototype-uri-parser-class/
this._regExp = /^((\w+):\/\/\/?)?((\w+):?(\w+)?@)?([^\/\?:]+):?(\d+)?(\/?[^\?#;\|]+)?([;\|])?([^\?#]+)?\??([^#]+)?#?(\w*)/;
this.username = "";
this.password = "";
this.port = "";
this.protocol = "";
this.host = "";
this.pathname = "";
this.url = "";
this.urlparamseparator = "";
this.urlparam = "";
this.querystring = {};
this.fragment = "";
this.results = null;

this._getVal = function(r, i) {
if(!r) return null;
return (typeof(r[i]) == 'undefined' ? "" : r[i]);
};

this.parse = function(uri) {
var r = this._regExp.exec(uri);
this.results = r;
this.url = this._getVal(r,0);
this.protocol = this._getVal(r,2);
this.username = this._getVal(r,4);
this.password = this._getVal(r,5);
this.host = this._getVal(r,6);
this.port = this._getVal(r,7);
this.pathname = this._getVal(r,8);
this.urlparamseparator = this._getVal(r,9);
this.urlparam = this._getVal(r,10);
this.querystring = this._getVal(r,11);
this.fragment = this._getVal(r,12);
return r;
}

if(uri) this.parse(uri);
}

Top-10 Application-Design Mistakes

For those who're involved in (web-related) design in any way, some really good tips here.

New project?

Will be trying to do up a simple mailing list program for use, and also for practise. Maybe I'll post up the process and the documents generated in the process, if anyone is interested in looking at how (badly) I do it this time ;P

Server-Side Web Development Cheat Sheets

Server-Side Web Development Cheat Sheets

Heh. ;)