Hi, The Request contains the line:
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Yet the response doesn't have the Content-Encoding: gzip line. I tried disabling SSL altogether but the the compression still did not work. I will send on my config files when I get home. Cheers Graeme On 12/09/2007, Boyle Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Graeme Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 12:45 AM > > To: users@httpd.apache.org > > Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gzip compression only working with SSL > > > > Hi, > > > > I am using Apache 2.2.6, with mod_ssl and mod_deflate. I am > > unable to get gzip compression working on a non SSL > > connection. I have the deflate config in the main httpd.conf, > > which is identical to my virtual host for SSL, however only > > when connecting over SSL does the gzip compression work. > > Compression and SSL are orthogonal - that is, they've nothing to do > with each other and shouldn't interfere. So it sounds like a spurious > correlation. What's really the problem is that you have two VHs, one of > which is configured correctly for compression and the other that isn't. > > To test, switch off SSL in the SSL-VH (just comment out all SSL > directives and then connect via http on the same port, eg 443). Do you > still get compression? > > To investigate, look at the request and response headers (eg, with > liveHTTPHeaders in Firefox). Do they make sense? > > To fix, double-check the config; are you sure mod_deflate is configured > the same in both VHs? Also, check content and clients - remember that a > client can refuse to accept compressed content and that some contents > are never compressed (eg, JPG).. > > If you don't fix it, post back some config snippets. > > Rgds, > Owen Boyle > Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. > > > > > > > > Any help would much appreciated as I have tried everything I > > can think of. > > > > Cheers > > Graeme Walker > > > > > > > This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain > confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No > confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If > you receive this message in error, please notify the sender urgently and > then immediately delete the message and any copies of it from your system. > Please also immediately destroy any hardcopies of the message. You must not, > directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part > of this message if you are not the intended recipient. The sender's company > reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through their > networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual > sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is > authorised to state them to be the views of the sender's company. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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] > >
