[squid-users] Re: [users@httpd] mod_deflate's problems

what I said is mod_deflate always send a "Vary: Accept-Encoding"
header to clients though it didn't compress that object.
this make some browsers have problems.

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Nils Jeppe <nils@pandemonium.de> wrote:
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> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, J. Peng wrote:
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> > I just think Apache's mod_deflate has a weak point.
> > When client doesn't declare it accept encoding, apache returns an
> > uncompressed object, but for this object mod_deflate also returns a
> > "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header.
> > This make some browsers be confused. In fact my current IE6 sp2 can't
> > download that object.
>
> Well, if you find that MSIE has problems with your compression scheme, you
> could simply disable compression for it. See:
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_deflate.html for an example.
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> Best wishes,
> Nils
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Received on Wed Feb 27 2008 - 23:45:56 MST