Does Apache 2 gzip json output by default?

Question

I\'m using this PHP code for json output. Does apache gzip it by default? Or, how can I check to make sure?

header(\'Content-type: application/json\');
header(\'         


        

Answer 1

No gzip is normally not used you have to enforce that yourself.

In the simplest case you just need to add this php line:

ob_start("ob_gzhandler");

See also the official php documentation.