There are also another limitations based on the version of browser your clients are using, IE 6 have problems with compressed css and js Pablo On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On mån, 2008-10-27 at 14:49 +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: >> I set up a reverse proxy in front to http://www.charite.de (typo3) since it's >> fucking slow. Now it's fast, but SOME (!) users are reporting the sites: >> >> http://www.charite.de/neurologie/ >> http://www.charite.de/stoffwechsel-centrum/ >> http://www.charite.de/ch/anaest/ards/ >> http://www.charite.de/akademie/ >> http://www.charite.de/biometrie/de/ >> >> as broken. The pictures they sent me look like compressed data instead >> of a page. >> >> I distinctly remember a similar problem with HTTP/1.1 and compression >> and heise.de --- > > Apache mod_deflate is broken in many versions, hence the > broken_vary_encoding directive in squid.conf... > > It could also be the case that the site doesn't announce Vary at all on > the compressed objects. This is another mod_deflate bug, but can be > worked around easily by Apache configuration forcing the "Vary: > accept-encoding" header to be added on responses processed by > mod_deflate. > > Regards > Henrik >
