= Problem =

To save bandwidth and make pages download faster, you want to compress 
output before sending it to the client.

= Solution =

Quixote supports transparent compression of HTTP message bodies, though it's turned off
by default.  To turn it on, you can either supply a setting in the configuration file you
pass to the `Publisher`'s  `read_config()` method:

{{{
COMPRESS_PAGES = True
}}}

Or you can use Python code to set an attribute on the publisher's configuration:

{{{
publisher.config.compress_pages = True
publisher.publish_cgi()      # Or whatever...
}}}

= Discussion =

Only gzip compression is supported.  Clients will receive compressed output if they
claim to support the "gzip" or "x-gzip" encoding, and if the HTTP body is larger than 200 bytes.

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