On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:46 PM, J. Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I mean I access to apache directly, didn't go through any cache/proxy. > ie6 with http/1.0 has problems with a Vary: header, if the response > was not gziped. > What I think is if mod_deflate DIDN'T compress a file, it SHOULD NOT > send a Vary header.
That is NOT how Vary works. Go read the HTTP spec. If your content changes based on a header, then you must report that header in Vary for ALL requests. Otherwise, a cache would take the request that it got for a client that didn't have support gzip and send it to browsers that do support gzip, negating the benefit of gzip. I also showed you an easy way to work around the problem if you don't care about incorrect responses from caches. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
