Content with Style - Comments on mod_deflate and IE6 bug

Content with Style - Comment #1 on mod_deflate and IE6 bug

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:54:17 -0400

If you need to examine HTTP traffic on a Windows box, you can’t really do better than Fiddler, an HTTP debugging proxy written by Eric Lawrence of Microsoft. It’s free, and as well as allowing you to inspect HTTP traffic, it can be extended (via JScript.NET) with scripted rules and custom inspectors.

It’s available at http://fiddlertool.com, if the link above doesn’t show up (it doesn’t appear on preview).

Content with Style - Comment #2 on mod_deflate and IE6 bug

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:44:54 -0500

“Internet Explorer May Lose the First 2,048 Bytes of Data That Are Sent Back from a Web Server That Uses HTTP Compression”
support.microsoft.com

or

“BUG: Script Errors with Cache-Control:no-cache HTTP Header and HTTP Compression”
support.microsoft.com

just to name a few.

Content with Style - Comment #3 on mod_deflate and IE6 bug

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:45:13 -0400

May I suggest a tweak for the MSIE line, as Internet Explorer 8 isn’t far off and your current configuration doesn’t take it into account. The following line should enable compression for IE7 and 8.

BrowserMatch bMSIEs(7|8) !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

Content with Style - Comment #4 on mod_deflate and IE6 bug

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:33:18 -0400

Just to note before anybody else just copies it to the server without reading it through :) Those examples are missing couple BACKSLASHES, one before 'b' and one before 's' letters. So the corrent line is: BrowserMatch \bMSIE\s(7|8) !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html other than that, thanks for the hint. I had some wierd issues when ie6 didn't load javascripts correctly, until now.

Content with Style - Comment #5 on mod_deflate and IE6 bug

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:23:49 -0400

Cheers for that ... one of the issues we had before we moved on to our new blog system ...

Content with Style - Comment #6 on mod_deflate and IE6 bug

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:46:25 -0400

props for this updated line...

looks like i have not been gziping anything but text/plain for ie* for the last year or so :/

thanks!

Content with Style - Comment #7 on mod_deflate and IE6 bug

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:13:23 -0400

Thank you! This REALLY helped me :) :)