Hi James, yes you are correct, I also have to remove the Accept-Encoding header later for the response compression.
But my current problem is that I can't get the decompression of the requests working. Regards, Dennis -----Original Message----- From: James Smith [mailto:j...@sanger.ac.uk] Sent: Montag, 9. März 2015 16:00 To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Decompress requests using mod_deflate and uset Content-Encoding header Wrong header... RequestHeader unset Accept-Encoding is the way to stop the backend compressing the request... On 09/03/2015 14:57, dennis.luna...@t-systems.com wrote: > Hi, > > I have some problems using mod_deflate to decompress requests. > > I am using a apache 2.4 as a reverse proxy on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server > release 6.4 (Santiago). Within this apache I have to decompress requests and > compress the answers. > To do this for some specific requests I defined a location: > <Location /web-services> > SetInputFilter DEFLATE > SetOutputFilter DEFLATE > </Location> > I got the result, that the request have been decompressed, but the header > Content-Encoding gzip is still set causing problems on the next server. > > So I removed the Content-Encoding header using mod_headers: > <Location /web-services> > RequestHeader unset Content-Encoding > SetInputFilter DEFLATE > SetOutputFilter DEFLATE > Header set Content-Encoding gzip > </Location> > As a result in the request the Content-Encoding is not set anymore. But the > request is still compressed. > The manual of mod_deflate says that only requests with the header > Content-Encoding gzip are decompressed. So it seems that mod_headers is > executed before mod_deflate. > > So basically either the decompression is done and the header is not changed > or the header is changed but the decompression is not done. > Is there any way to decompress the request and remove the Content-Encoding > gzip header? > > Regards, > Dennis > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
