Compress sitemap using GZip

[Robert_Readman]

I was wondering if someone could help me with this.

Is it possible to save both sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz insted of one or the other?
Or do all search engines support .gz compression? thus the reason for only having one.

In my robots.txt I have...

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Sitemap: http://www.domain.tld/sitemap.xml

I assume I set it to...

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Sitemap: http://www.domain.tld/sitemap.xml.gz

What about smaller search engines? or do all support it?

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Hello,

gzip compression is a part of official sitemaps protocol, so all search engines support it: [ External links are visible to logged in users only ]

[Robert_Readman]

Great, I will update everything to say xml.gz
Only problem is, it outputs my urllist.txt as urllist.txt.gz also.

Is it possible to make XML-Sitemaps generate the xml.gz and the normal.xml file like the A1 Sitemap Generator does?

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Hello,

you can setup 2 separate instances of sitemap generator for that, but there is really no sense in creating both compressed and uncompressed sitemaps - you should submit only one of them anyway.