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Subject: Re: mod_gzip and incorrect ETag response (Bug #39727)
From: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
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Cc: TOKILEY@aol.com
In-Reply-To: <C2F87D78.8FFA3%Brian.Akins@turner.com>
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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:04:11 +0200
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On m=C3=A5n, 2007-08-27 at 13:09 -0400, Akins, Brian wrote:
> On 8/27/07 12:34 PM, "TOKILEY@aol.com" <TOKILEY@aol.com> wrote:
>=20
> > Hasn't the non-compressed variant become an extreme edge-case
> > by now? I would certainly hope so.
> > =20
>=20
> Unfortunately not.  About 30% of our requests do not advertise gzip
> support..

And MSIE deserves a special mention here.. if MSIE is using a proxy and
NOT configured to "Use HTTP/1.1 via proxies" then it will not advertise
gzip support, and what is worse it will not at all understand a gzip:ed
response should one be given to it.. seen at least in MSIE6, have not
tested 7.

Regards
Henrik

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