On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Joost Schuttelaar <jo...@joostschuttelaar.nl> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm running a Apache installation using a standard DirectAdmin setup, but I'm > having problems with handling of gzipped output. > > One of my PHP scripts outputs a .ZIP file (with appropriate headers). By > default, the output of this script gets gzipped by mod_deflate. Of course > there is no need to gzip a zip file, but decent browsers have no problem > handling this. Internet Explorer mangles the file though, unless you set a > non standard content type. > > So, in order to fix this and disable gzip for this script, I've set up a line > in my .htaccess file: > > SetEnvIf Request_URI download_file\.php$ no-gzip dont-vary > > When I test this using wget (wget --header="Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate") > this works fine. Output from this script does not get gzipped. However, if I > add the IE user agent header (User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE > 6.0;.....) the content still gets gzipped. > > Strangely, when I replace the above line with 'SetEnv no-gzip', the content > does not get gzipped even though I send the IE user agent header. I've traced > this back to the stock httpd-deflate.conf which is included in my httpd.conf. > It contains the following line: > > BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html > > When I comment this line out, things work as expected... does, for some > reason, a BrowserMatch reffered from httpd.conf have precedence over what's > in a .htaccess file? Any suggestions? I could change my httpd.conf, but when > the site for instance gets moved to a different server this problem might > rear it's ugly head again...
two pieces of trivia that might fill in some blanks: 1) SetEnv runs much later than SetEnvIf/BrowserMatch no matter what context you place it in 2) somewhat counterintuitively, <Location has precedence over <Directory -- perhaps you could wrap the canned deflate stuff in a <Directory> entry at a higher then your htaccess so the htaccess is processed second? -- Eric Covener cove...@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
