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RSC, ReSource Compression, is a very small PHP script which aims to compress on 
the fly your JS and CSS files for a faster download. It is intended to be used 
when your web hosting company doesn't allow you to use mod_deflate in Apache 
(although you hopefully have compression available in the PHP configuration).

This was initially developed for circumventing these hinders I experienced 
while developing my pet project, geo:truc (http://www.geotruc.net)

It is especially useful when used with hosted libraries, for instance jQuery. 
Suppose you have a javascript directory name js/ and within it a file jQuery.js.

Instead of making a link such as:
<script src="js/jQuery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
where nothing is compressed, or using PHP for compressing and writing:
<script src="js/compress.php?file=jQuery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
you simply write
<script src="rsc/jQuery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
(the real file ISN'T in rsc/)

RSC will then find js/jQuery.js and send it over the Internet, but compressed.

How to use this? Simply copy the directories rsc/ and src/ to your site. You can
then edit rsc/.htaccess and src/rsc.php to adapt the small configuration to your needs, and then 
start to use RSC.

Please note that this doesn't work with Opera. 

Released under the GNU Affero General Public License.

Enjoy! 
Korbinus <korbinus at gmail.com>