I need to send a fairly large chunk of data from one server (PHP 5.3) to thousands of different servers running all sorts of different PHP versions, web servers, modules and operating systems (all PHP 4.3+).
The data I am sending is formatted text with lots of white space etc. So I would like to compress it before sending and uncompress it at the end point.
Is there a native PHP solution that will allow me to do this?
If not, what would be the solution supported by the most end points?
It does not necessarily have to compress the data, but prepare it for transport via HTTP. Does urlencode() preserve line breaks?
