[Wylug-help] mod_gzip

[James Holden]

mikeb@gbdirect.co.uk wrote:

>On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 08:10:54PM +0100, Geoff Richards wrote:
>
>
>>I think it's possible to turn it on only for HTML pages, which shouldn't
>>cause problems.  I haven't tried this, but I found a webpage,
>>unfortunately in German, which shows some example Apache config to do
>>compression only for things that won't break browsers.  It has stuff
>>like this:
>>
>>   # JA:   HTML-Dokumente
>>     mod_gzip_item_include         file       \.html$
>>
>>   # NEIN: Include-Dateien/JavaScript & CSS (wegen Netscape4-bugs)
>>     mod_gzip_item_exclude         file       \.js$
>>     mod_gzip_item_exclude         file       \.css$
>>
>>Now you can have fun trying to translate the comments.  The
>>page is here:
>>
>>   http://www.schroepl.net/projekte/mod_gzip/config.htm
>>
>>qef
>>
>>
>
>The problem that we had with Netscape 4 and early-ish versions of IE
>was that IFRAMES screwed up even with HTML contents. That may be bogus
>and old-hat by now.
>
>Mike
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I seem to recall IE 5.5 having problems with gzipped php pages. Might
have been a problem with the MS proxy server at my work though. It was
on the box at home which runs my web-based email, and I have to put up
with some crummy MS proxy server in between me and the outside world.

Regards,

James