On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Paul Querna <[email protected]> wrote: > curl -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip;' -iL > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/style/css/manual.css 2>/dev/null | > head -12 > > What i've been told is, most of the time, this 'works' and you get > compressed data. But sometimes, the same request returns uncompressed > data, but with the same headers -- implying that mod_deflate was > removed after adding the headers somehow -- this of course will cause > browsers to try to decompress it, but since its already decomrpessed, > it doesn't work. > > As far as I know, it has only been reported on 2.3.5 -- not in the > earlier 2.3.3 (which the EU machine also ran before 2.3.5). If you > search twitter for 'apache.org' you also see several more reports.
FWIW, I'd never seen it before this saturday where I saw it for about an hour consistently -- browser independent. C-E: gzip was set but not actually compressed. -- Eric Covener [email protected]
