>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 31.10.2003 23:44:06 >>> > >On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Andre Schild wrote: >> Please have a look at the following Mozilla bug report >> >> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224296 >> >> It seems that mod_deflate does transfer encoding, >> but sets the headers as if doing content encoding. >I'm not an expert in this, but that statement seems completely wrong to >me. Compressing the content is a content-encoding, not a >transfer-encoding. The only thing transfer-encoding is used for in HTTP >is chunking. I anyone here reading this who can answer this for sure ?
>I see nothing wrong other than the fact that the browser is passing >compressed content to a plugin that can't handle it. Could well be a problem in the plugin interface code, since IE shows the same problem. >> >> http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22902 >> >> Any ideas on this subject ? > >It seems to me that we should only recommend the "AddOutputFilterByType" >configuration, since compressing everything has too many potential >problems. I think we should put a warning on the second "recomended configuration" that compressing everything can cause problems. (Specially with PDF files) André
