[Mod_gzip] "mod_gzip_send_vary=Yes" disables caching on IE? (1.3.26.1a)

[Christian Kruse]

Hoi,

On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 05:50:39PM -0600, Jordan Russell wrote:
> After further testing, I've found that IE 6 *will* cache a page containing
> "Vary: Accept-Encoding" just fine *if* there's also a "Content-Encoding:
> gzip" header. It's only the files that mod_gzip sends back uncompressed with
> no Content-Encoding header that are not being cached.

Silly...

> Could mod_gzip suppress the "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header when sending back
> uncompressed data? That seems like the perfect "solution".

This is even as bad as not sending Vary headers. In a office using a
proxy and some UAs not capable to handle compressed content, the
compressed version perhaps would never been send (uh, my English seems
to be very bad, I'm sorry). I think, there is no real solution.

Greetings,
 CK

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