I think that's definitely not correct. Browsers do inflate and process the HTML on the fly, they do not wait for the entire payload. Chrome seems to have a buffer of 256 bytes, and Firefox has none. I have used this server for testing this: https://gist.github.com/1009108 and monitored when foo.css was requested on port 3001. Also, it is clear that mod_deflate does not understand chunked encoding coming from the app server. It compresses the payload. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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