Re: [users@httpd] gzipping via mod_deflate, the DeflateBufferSize, the Content-Length header, and download progress in Web browsers

2012-10-03 Thread Ben Johnson
On 9/26/2012 12:39 PM, Eric Covener wrote: Is there any chance that the SetEnvIfNoCase directive is not being satisfied due to the mod_rewrite rules that I'm using? There's always a way for things to go wrong with mod_rewrite. SetEnvIf would run both before and after your rewrite on both

Re: [users@httpd] gzipping via mod_deflate, the DeflateBufferSize, the Content-Length header, and download progress in Web browsers

2012-09-26 Thread Ben Johnson
On 9/12/2012 1:16 PM, Ben Johnson wrote: Would it be better to disable GZIP compression for all URLs within the /download/ (for example) directory? Or perhaps for certain file-types? Because I tried that with the following, but it seems not to have any effect (I believe this example to be

Re: [users@httpd] gzipping via mod_deflate, the DeflateBufferSize, the Content-Length header, and download progress in Web browsers

2012-09-26 Thread Eric Covener
Whenever I enable GZIP compression on this page, via mod_deflate, Web browsers do not show the total file size to be downloaded, presumably because Apache is chunking the reply and the Content-Length header is very small, e.g., 20 Do you mean some of the chunk sizes? There should be no

Re: [users@httpd] gzipping via mod_deflate, the DeflateBufferSize, the Content-Length header, and download progress in Web browsers

2012-09-26 Thread Eric Covener
Is there any chance that the SetEnvIfNoCase directive is not being satisfied due to the mod_rewrite rules that I'm using? There's always a way for things to go wrong with mod_rewrite. SetEnvIf would run both before and after your rewrite on both the rewritten and un-rewritten URL, and

[users@httpd] gzipping via mod_deflate, the DeflateBufferSize, the Content-Length header, and download progress in Web browsers

2012-09-12 Thread Ben Johnson
I have a download page that serves various types of content (PDFs, ZIP files, images, etc.) via a PHP script that is executed atop Apache. Whenever I enable GZIP compression on this page, via mod_deflate, Web browsers do not show the total file size to be downloaded, presumably because Apache is