This is my configuration which works perfectly for me (at least it worked when I last checked ;-) <IfModule mod_deflate.c> DeflateBufferSize 65536 DeflateCompressionLevel 9 DeflateFilterNote Input instream DeflateFilterNote Output outstream DeflateFilterNote Ratio ratio DeflateMemLevel 9 DeflateWindowSize 15 # Some ancient browsers have problems with gzip, although they claim to be compatible BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip # there were some problems with MSIE on Win98, so let's err on the safe side BrowserMatch "Windows 98" gzip-only-text/html # Never trust old versions of MSIE, too many different versions with too many diferrent bugs BrowserMatch "MSIE [45]" gzip-only-text/html <Location /> AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain application/x-javascript text/css </Location> </IfModule> --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx