Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: rl_returnz turned on at openacs.org

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Posted by Frank N. on
Jeff: When I started using mod_gzip on Apache, I did a bit of digging, and from looking at your code I think you may need a few more exceptions. Basically you also want to turn of gzip for old Netscape browsers, and during the authentication process. Wether the internal operation of AOLserver does the latter automatically I don't know, but that is what is recommended by the mod_gzip gurus, as this breaks the authentication process for some (a few) obscure browsers versions out there.

The crucial lines from the mod_gzip.c section of a httpd.conf file are:

mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader WWW-Authenticate:.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude reqheader "User-Agent: Mozilla/4\.0[^ ]"

Frank.