[PATCHv2] httpd: add option to send files using gzip content-encoding if available

Vladimir Dronnikov dronnikov at gmail.com
Sat Jul 24 21:03:49 UTC 2010


>
>  Vladimir> Just FYI, Internet Explorer <7 sends Accept-Encoding: gzip
>  Vladimir> but cannot correctly process gzipped response. You should
>  Vladimir> analyze also User-Agent: and conditionally skip gzipping.
>
> Really? I have an IE6 running here in wine, and it seems to work ok:
>

Consider modern nginx (and I assume apache also) setups which still
inhibits gzipping for IE <7.

In any event, just pinged of possible inconsistencies.

--Vladimir


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