On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:38:08 +0100 matthias platzer <mplatzer@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > hello list, > > My Apache 2.2.3 does reverse proxy to an internal backend > (application)server which does Content-Encoding:gzip (=compression) > on most of the content he delivers, by default. The Proxy* directives > are inside a virtual host. Can you not configure the backend not to send you compressed? > But I'd like the proxy to do all the compression work, > a) because mod_security cannot handle encoded content(in the response > from backend), You can of course decompress on the proxy if necessary, for the benefit of content filters (such as mod_security). > b) it would be redundant to compress the already compressed content. > > So to talk to the backend uncompressed, I strip the Accept-Encoding > with "Request-Header unset Accept-Encoding" from the client request. > Now the backend sends its responses without compression. But they go > to the client uncompressed too, of course. Yep. > What would I have to do to let the proxy compress the response to the > client (again)? Simply setting the SetOutputFilter DEFLATE is not > enough. Also I would have to deal with clients not supporting > compression on the proxy myself, instead of letting the backend do > the work. You can use force-gzip to override the absence of Accept-Encoding. Use mod_rewrite to set it conditionally, before stripping the real Accept-Encoding header. -- Nick Kew Application Development with Apache - the Apache Modules Book http://www.apachetutor.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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