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Tell the server to gzip the content (Accept-Encoding header) - note the Content-Length that your server sends back on line 12 

$ wget -S --header 'Cookie: _96methodsblog_session=78a55ae45c50aa255f0cc8d7c681237f' --header 'Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate' http://www.96methods.com/admin/blog -O blog.gz
--2009-02-18 19:45:44--  http://www.96methods.com/admin/blog
Resolving www.96methods.com... 75.119.207.192
Connecting to www.96methods.com|75.119.207.192|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:45:45 GMT
  Server: Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) PHP/4.4.9 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8c mod_fastcgi/2.4.6 Phusion_Passenger/2.0.5 DAV/2 SVN/1.4.2
  Set-Cookie: _96methodsblog_session=78a55ae45c50aa255f0cc8d7c681237f; path=/
  ETag: "e86c5e891da8a5dabef4619fb5f75be3"
  X-Runtime: 0.00626
  Content-Length: 1998
  Cache-Control: private, max-age=0, must-revalidate
  Vary: Accept-Encoding
  Content-Encoding: gzip
  Keep-Alive: timeout=2, max=100
  Connection: Keep-Alive
  Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Length: 1998 (2.0K) [text/html]
Saving to: `blog.gz'

42% [=======================>                                   ] 841         --.-K/s   in 1.9s    

2009-02-18 19:45:46 (441 B/s) - Connection closed at byte 841. Retrying.

Hmm content length of 1998 but only 841 bytes received. Let's do an ls - yep the gzipped file we received is actually only 841 bytes 

$ ls -al blog.gz
-rw-r-----  1 jgk  staff  841 18 Feb 19:45 blog.gz

Now we'll request the same page, but without any gzipping (we have no Accept-Encoding header) - note the Content-Length from your server is still the same - 1998 

$ wget -S --header 'Cookie: _96methodsblog_session=78a55ae45c50aa255f0cc8d7c681237f'  http://www.96methods.com/admin/blog -O blog.html
--2009-02-18 19:51:13--  http://www.96methods.com/admin/blog
Resolving www.96methods.com... 75.119.207.192
Connecting to www.96methods.com|75.119.207.192|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:51:13 GMT
  Server: Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) PHP/4.4.9 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8c mod_fastcgi/2.4.6 Phusion_Passenger/2.0.5 DAV/2 SVN/1.4.2
  Set-Cookie: _96methodsblog_session=78a55ae45c50aa255f0cc8d7c681237f; path=/
  ETag: "e86c5e891da8a5dabef4619fb5f75be3"
  X-Runtime: 0.05190
  Content-Length: 1998
  Cache-Control: private, max-age=0, must-revalidate
  Vary: Accept-Encoding
  Keep-Alive: timeout=2, max=100
  Connection: Keep-Alive
  Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Length: 1998 (2.0K) [text/html]
Saving to: `blog.html'

100%[==========================================================>] 1,998       --.-K/s   in 0s      

2009-02-18 19:51:13 (95.3 MB/s) - `blog.html' saved [1998/1998]

let's just confirm that size with an ls of the HTML file we just received 

$ ls -al blog.html
-rw-r-----  1 jgk  staff  1998 18 Feb 19:51 blog.html

so now let's just confirm that the gzipping is working correctly by gunzipping the blog.gz that we got before and then comparing the result with blog.html 

$ gunzip blog.gz
$ diff blog blog.html
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