By any chance are you using the APR connector? If so, it will use sendfile (unless explicitly disabled) for large static files which bypasses the connector compression logic.
"Michael" <sg...@gmx.net> wrote in message news:49de445c.3050...@gmx.net... > Hi folks, > > I recently had a discussion with Chuck about, in my opion, the faultly > gzip compression filter in the Connector. Unfortunately, the discussion > ended without a solution for the problem. > Basically, Tomcat fails to compress anything else but JSPs regardless > whether I set compressableMimeType or not. > > I am on Tomcat 5.5.27, WinXP SP2. I even scanned through Tomcat code but > wasn't able to track the problem. > > Is anyone able to receive compressed JS or CSS files, which are servered > from static files? > > Thanks, > > Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
