Thanks a lot for all the advice. Unfortunately we are limited to using only IE so we cannot implement other browsers. The mod_filter looks promising, I will try that. Thanks, Simon On 4/14/06, Axel-Stéphane SMORGRAV <Axel-Stephane.SMORGRAV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > IE does not particularly like compressed CSS and JS and exhibits exactly the behaviour you describe when you download a compressed CSS or a compressed JS which compressed size is less than 5 KB (?? not sure about the number, but if memory serves me right it corresponds to some Windows registry setting). Compressing plain text or HTML works well. > > In my view you have several choices: > > 1. If you really need to compress CSS and JS responses because most are big, but you have a few that are below the limit, you can pad those that are known to cause the problem. > > 2. If most CSS and JS are small, you can choose not to compress this kind of contents. > > 3. You can use mod_filter to execute the DEFLATE output-filter, you can create conditions on the types of contents you want to compress, and even on the size of each content. You can for example choose to compress CSS and JS only if the size exceeds a certain value. > > mod_filter is an Apache 2.1/2.2 module but can relatively easily be compiled for Apache 2.0 > > You state that you have the problem even though you do not compress JS. I do not however know about any other issue with IE that would cause the problem you describe, and the problem is definitely not in Apache. I have been using compression a little in 2.0.47, and heavily in 2.0.49 and 2.0.54, and never seen the exact problem you describe caused by anything else that IE/CSS/JS. Of course there may be other problems related to timing, scripts expecting certain variables to exist that are defined in another java script that has not yet initialised etc., but I doubt it is in your case. > > -ascs > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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