Re: [squid-users] 2.7 reverse proxy --> compression problems

There are also another limitations based on the version of browser
your clients are using, IE 6 have problems with compressed css and js

Pablo

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Henrik Nordstrom
<henrik_at_henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
> On mån, 2008-10-27 at 14:49 +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
>> I set up a reverse proxy in front to http://www.charite.de (typo3) since it's
>> fucking slow. Now it's fast, but SOME (!) users are reporting the sites:
>>
>> http://www.charite.de/neurologie/
>> http://www.charite.de/stoffwechsel-centrum/
>> http://www.charite.de/ch/anaest/ards/
>> http://www.charite.de/akademie/
>> http://www.charite.de/biometrie/de/
>>
>> as broken. The pictures they sent me look like compressed data instead
>> of a page.
>>
>> I distinctly remember a similar problem with HTTP/1.1 and compression
>> and heise.de ---
>
> Apache mod_deflate is broken in many versions, hence the
> broken_vary_encoding directive in squid.conf...
>
> It could also be the case that the site doesn't announce Vary at all on
> the compressed objects. This is another mod_deflate bug, but can be
> worked around easily by Apache configuration forcing the "Vary:
> accept-encoding" header to be added on responses processed by
> mod_deflate.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
Received on Tue Oct 28 2008 - 13:58:40 MDT