Remove gzip_compression(). Leave it to the server. fixes #4342

git-svn-id: http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk@6775 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd

wp-admin/options-reading.php

@@ -116,10 +116,6 @@ endforeach;
 <?php _e('The character encoding you write your blog in (UTF-8 is <a href="http://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos8/TextIntlSvcs/TextEncodingConversionManager/TEC1.5/TEC.b0.html">recommended</a>)') ?></td>
 </tr>
 </table>
-<p>
-<label><input type="checkbox" name="gzipcompression" value="1" <?php checked('1', get_option('gzipcompression')); ?> />
-<?php _e('WordPress should compress articles (gzip) if browsers ask for them') ?></label>
-</p>
 <p class="submit">
 <input type="hidden" name="action" value="update" />
 <input type="hidden" name="page_options" value="posts_per_page,posts_per_rss,rss_use_excerpt,blog_charset,gzipcompression,show_on_front,page_on_front,page_for_posts,show_avatars,avatar_rating" />

wp-blog-header.php

@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ $wp_did_header = true;
 require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-config.php');
 
 wp();
-gzip_compression();
 
 require_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/template-loader.php');
 

wp-includes/functions.php

@@ -403,13 +403,6 @@ function maybe_serialize( $data ) {
 }
 
 
-function gzip_compression() {
-	if ( !get_option( 'gzipcompression' ) || ini_get( 'zlib.output_compression' ) == 'On' || ini_get( 'zlib.output_compression_level' ) > 0  || ini_get( 'output_handler' ) == 'ob_gzhandler' || !extension_loaded( 'zlib' ) )
-		return false;
-	ob_start( 'ob_gzhandler' );
-}
-
-
 function make_url_footnote( $content ) {
 	preg_match_all( '/<a(.+?)href=\"(.+?)\"(.*?)>(.+?)<\/a>/', $content, $matches );
 	$j = 0;