On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 1:28 AM, J. Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just think Apache's mod_deflate has a weak point. > When client doesn't declare it accept encoding, apache returns an > uncompressed object, but for this object mod_deflate also returns a > "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header. > This make some browsers be confused. In fact my current IE6 sp2 can't > download that object.
That is not a weak point. It is a requirement of the HTTP standard and its absence would result in incorrect content being sent to some clients using proxy caches. Its purpose is to instruct caches that they can only send the cached response to browsers that use the same Accept-Encoding header as the original client. You can get rid of it with SetEnvIf MSIE force-no-vary but doing this will possibly result in bad responses to browsers using caches. If MSIE really can't handle a Vary header, then it is terminally broken. I suspect the problem is more likely in something else that you are doing, since many millions of servers send this header to MSIE without any problems. For example, why are you forcing MSIE to use HTTP/1.0 requests in the first place? Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
