what I said is mod_deflate always send a "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header to clients though it didn't compress that object. this make some browsers have problems. On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Nils Jeppe <nils@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, J. Peng wrote: > > > I just think Apache's mod_deflate has a weak point. > > When client doesn't declare it accept encoding, apache returns an > > uncompressed object, but for this object mod_deflate also returns a > > "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header. > > This make some browsers be confused. In fact my current IE6 sp2 can't > > download that object. > > Well, if you find that MSIE has problems with your compression scheme, you > could simply disable compression for it. See: > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_deflate.html for an example. > > > > Best wishes, > Nils > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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