I need to set up a test environment where I am running Apache locally with a number of xml data files as objects to serve. I am doing this to simulate a live server tha I don't want to disturb for my testing. The live server responds to requests for file URL:s like: http://server/dir/file.xml.gz by sending a gzipped data stream that FireFox discovers is compressed and expands it into the browse window so that the file.xml contents is shown. I am developing an application to retrieve the data from this site and I am using Borland Delphi with the Indy components (TIdHTTP) and also in this case the indy HTTP component sees that the file is compressed and expands it into my program so I can handle the data itself. I want to achieve the same thing with my test environment but it does not work neither in FireFox nor in my application. Expansion does not happen. My test files are a selection of the gz files I have downloaded from the original site, so they are valid as far as I can understand. It seems like there is a setting in the Apache server to change so that the server along with the actual file data also sends "something" that triggers the expansion. What this could be I don't know, and therefore I am asking here. So what is it one should configure to get it going? Here is the config section for my test dir in the Apache conf file: Alias /xmltv/ "C:/Engineering/Projects/XMLTV/Testsite/" <Directory "C:/Engineering/Projects/XMLTV/Testsite"> Options Indexes MultiViews Includes AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all AddType text/html .shtml AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml </Directory> What should I do to make Apache tell browsers that the file it sends is compressed? Bo Berglund --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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