But all modern browsers support it, right ? Are there any downsides for not using Vary:Accept Encoding with mod_deflate?
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:23 AM, Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Akash Jain <akash.delh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > We had a weird issue of Akamai not caching static content like JS, CSS > etc. > > On debugging, they reported that we are sending "Vary:Accept Encoding" is > > causing issue. > > But I think that mod_deflate automatically sends that (for proxies) > > > > However, I have explicitly unset that header so that Akamai can cache. > Are > > there any downsides of this ? > > If someone requests a file from a browser not capable of gzip > compression, they'll get an unreadable file, because it will be served > out of the cache in gzipped form. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >
