On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:32:26 +0200, André Warnier <aw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> HTTP/1.x 200 OK >> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:33:12 GMT >> Server: Apache/2.0.53 (Fedora) >> Last-Modified: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:10:29 GMT >> Etag: "14fc-b9387f40" >> Accept-Ranges: bytes >> Content-Length: 5372 >> Cache-Control: no-transform >> Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100 >> Connection: Keep-Alive >> Content-Type: application/xml >> Content-Encoding: gzip >> >> ------------------ my test server ------------------------ >> >> HTTP/1.x 200 OK >> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:34:38 GMT >> Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Win32) PHP/4.4.7 >> Last-Modified: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:20:20 GMT >> Etag: "55084-14fc-91160693" >> Accept-Ranges: bytes >> Content-Length: 5372 >> Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100 >> Connection: Keep-Alive >> Content-Type: application/x-gzip >> Content-Encoding: gzip >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> In the server responses I see these differences: >> >> Cache-Control: no-transform (not existing in test server) >> Content-Type: application/xml >> >> (test server has this instead:) >> Content-Type: application/x-gzip >> >> How is the tag "Content-Type" set in Apache? > >Exactly. Because in the second case, the browser gets >"application/gzip" as the content-type, it thinks that what it has >received is ok as is, and does not unzip it. >While in the first case, because it gets "application/xml", it "knows" >that the content is really xml, and that it must unzip it first. > >So new we must find what, in the first server, sets the content-type >that way. >One more question : on the first server, is the original file on disk >already gzipped, or is it in xml (unzipped) format on the disk ? > >Since I don't have the configuration of the first server, I'm trying to >guess what it exactly does before it sends out the response. It could >be taking an xml file, and gzipping it on-the-fly, before it sends it in >the response. >Or else, it could be "cheating", taking the already gzipped file from >disk, and sending it as is, but "falsifying the headers" to tell the >browser to unzip it. >It may be as simple as adding (or replacing) some line >AddType application/xml .xml.gz > I changed httpd.conf like this: <Directory "C:/Engineering/Projects/XMLTV/XMLTVTestsite"> Options Indexes MultiViews Includes AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all AddType application/xml .xml.gz AddEncoding gzip .gz AddType text/xml .xml AddType text/html .shtml </Directory> But FireFox still offers to save the file rather than decompressing and showing the xml like it does from the original server: HTTP/1.x 200 OK Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:39:58 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Win32) PHP/4.4.7 Last-Modified: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:19:12 GMT Etag: "5b091-13b0-8d04e669" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 5040 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: application/x-gzip Content-Encoding: gzip ---------------------------------------------------------- With this change: <Directory "C:/Engineering/Projects/XMLTV/XMLTVTestsite"> Options Indexes MultiViews Includes AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all AddType application/xml .xml.gz AddType text/xml .xml AddType text/html .shtml </Directory> I get this instead: HTTP/1.x 200 OK Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:41:43 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Win32) PHP/4.4.7 Last-Modified: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:19:30 GMT Etag: "5b225-1277-8e1f670e" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 4727 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: application/x-gzip ---------------------------------------------------------- With this in place I started looking elsewhere in httpd.conf and found this line, which I commented out: AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz What happened now is that FireFox displays an error message: XML Parsing Error: not well-formed Location: http://polaris/xmltv/svt1.svt.se_2008-06-15.xml.gz Line Number 1, Column 1 and the headers now are: HTTP/1.x 200 OK Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:48:07 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Win32) PHP/4.4.7 Last-Modified: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:18:36 GMT Etag: "5ae5a-169d-8aea1e6f" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 5789 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/xml ---------------------------------------------------------- Probably now FireFox does not realize that the data are gzipped anymore and tries to parse the binary compressed stream, which obviously fails... Have to re-enable this directive... 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