How are you testing that this is working correctly ? Are you using wget with the --header="Accept-Encoding: gzip" to test it ? D On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 09:46 -0500, Joshua Slive wrote: > 2008/2/25 Yuan HOng <hongyuan1306@xxxxxxxxx>: > > Hi, list, > > > > I have a large javascript file which I want to send to IE6 gziped and > > for IE6 to cache. > > > > I set the following derective in the configuration file: > > > > AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript > > > > The result is but that IE6 doesn't cache the javascript. > > > > Looking into the response headers, I found that apache is sending > > Transfer-Encoding: chunked together with Vary: Accept-Encoding, but > > without Content-Encoding: gzip > > > > I think that the missing Content-Encoding: gzip might have to do with > > IE6 not caching the Javascript. Does anybody have an idea about this? > > > > By the way, I have read that Content-Encoding and Transfer-Encoding > > are separate things, so I am expecting Apache to send > > Transfer-Encoding together with Content-Encoding. Why is > > Content-Encoding dropped? > > > > Also, the 'chunked' transfer encoding is supposed to be used for > > dynamically generated content. But my javascript file is a static one. > > When does apache decide to use 'chunked' encoding? Can I force Apache > > not to use 'chunked' encoding for gziped content? > > [Warning: these are mostly informed guesses. I'm not a gzip expert.] > > Transfer- and Content-Encoding are indeed separate things. One does > not imply the other. Apache is doing Transfer-Encoding, not > Content-Encoding, so setting the latter header would be an error. > > The chunking is likely there so that apache can send the file as it is > being compressed, rather than wait to compress the entire file before > sending. > > I'm not sure why MSIE isn't caching the file, but I think both the > Content-Encoding and the chunking are not the problem. You need to > look elsewhere. > > Joshua. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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