gzip - compressed html

[Jan M.J. Storms]

I have a question about increasing speed and reducing bandwith usage with
gzip-compression of html.

There is a gzip-compression extension for Frontier made by Arnold V.
Lesikar at:

<http://einstein.stcloudstate.edu/gzip/>

Unfortunately it doesn't work with MacOSX at present. My question is:
could this extension be adapted and integrated into Frontier's webserver
to serve gzip-compressed html?

According to an article at <http://webreference.com/internet/software/
servers/http/compression/>, with "mod_gzip" compression

>Webmasters typically see a 150-160% increase in Web server performance,
>and a 70% - 80% reduction in HTML/XML/JavaScript bandwidth utilized,
>using this module. Overall the bandwidth savings are approximately 30 to
>60%. (This factors in the transmission of graphics.)

And the question is also: would Arnold V. Lesikar or someone else
(Userland?) be willing to do this? Maybe for Userland the reduction in
bandwith usage alone might be worth the effort.

Jan