gzip problem in IE6 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q312496 is over since
1. M$ provides a free patch; 2. those lazy users (who usually don't care to apply patches) are not able to report problems anymore. Personally, I would recommend not to deal with deflate when possible. Thanks, Slava ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Dick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Slava Bizyayev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 6:46 AM Subject: Re: How practical is that Practical mod_perl? > ok, i thought you might have been referred to problems that early > versions of IE6 seemed to have with gzip, or with deflate problems in > mozilla/n6. > > Slava Bizyayev wrote: > > >NN-4.X sends HTTP header > > > >Accept-Encoding: gzip > > > >requesting any web content. Unfortunately NN-4.X fails to ungzip css files > >and JavaScript libraries. It is pretty old and well-known bug in NN-4.X. To > >work around this bug mod_gzip uses internal procedures for recognition of > >NN-4.X. The similar approach is used in mod_deflate. Apache::GzipChain does > >not have internal resources to work around this bug. > > > >You can find on CPAN > >http://search.cpan.org/author/SLAVA/Apache-CompressClientFixup-0.06/ which > >is supposed to serve any mod_perl compressor including Apache::GzipChain, > >but this handler is missed in example on p.402. > > > ># From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ># To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ># Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 20:05:06 +0200 > ># > ># ... Our customers still include 17% Netscape 4 users, sigh ... > ># > > > >Thanks, > >Slava > > > > > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "David Dick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Slava Bizyayev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 4:41 PM > >Subject: Re: How practical is that Practical mod_perl? > > > > > > > > > >>>The direct implementation of the example > >>>configuration p.402 is supposed to lead you to about 15% of unsatisfied > >>>clients recently. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>Can we have some more information about what in the implementation leads > >>to the unsatisfied clients? > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > >
