Re: [Mod_gzip] Re: Squid and Compression

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 23:18:31 +0200

On Tuesday 27 August 2002 23.44, Michael.Schroepl@telekurs.de wrote:

> The real problem is that there is _one_single_
> browser (known to me) that understands compres-
> sed content _even_ if it didn't ask for it.

Which is not a real problem in therms of HTTP. See the Vary discussion
on User-Agent.

> Neither M$IE nor Mozilla (!) will handle gzipped
> content correctly if they didn't send the HTTP
> header "Accept-Encoding: gzip".

And they should not be receiving any such replies unless they ask for
it.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Aug 28 2002 - 15:49:02 MDT

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