Hi James,
yes you are correct, I also have to remove the Accept-Encoding header later for the response compression.
But my current problem is that I can't get the decompression of the requests working.
Regards,
Dennis
-----Original Message-----
From: James Smith [mailto:js5@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Montag, 9. März 2015 16:00
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Decompress requests using mod_deflate and uset Content-Encoding header
Wrong header...
RequestHeader unset Accept-Encoding
is the way to stop the backend compressing the request...
On 09/03/2015 14:57, Dennis.Lunardi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have some problems using mod_deflate to decompress requests.
>
> I am using a apache 2.4 as a reverse proxy on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4 (Santiago). Within this apache I have to decompress requests and compress the answers.
> To do this for some specific requests I defined a location:
> <Location /web-services>
> SetInputFilter DEFLATE
> SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
> </Location>
> I got the result, that the request have been decompressed, but the header Content-Encoding gzip is still set causing problems on the next server.
>
> So I removed the Content-Encoding header using mod_headers:
> <Location /web-services>
> RequestHeader unset Content-Encoding
> SetInputFilter DEFLATE
> SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
> Header set Content-Encoding gzip
> </Location>
> As a result in the request the Content-Encoding is not set anymore. But the request is still compressed.
> The manual of mod_deflate says that only requests with the header Content-Encoding gzip are decompressed. So it seems that mod_headers is executed before mod_deflate.
>
> So basically either the decompression is done and the header is not changed or the header is changed but the decompression is not done.
> Is there any way to decompress the request and remove the Content-Encoding gzip header?
>
> Regards,
> Dennis
>
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