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

[Slava Bizyayev]

Please, could you try

header("Vary: *");
header("Content-Encoding: identity");
echo "Hi";

Thanks,
Slava

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jordan Russell" <jr-list-mod_gzip@quo.to>
To: <mod_gzip@lists.over.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 1:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Mod_gzip] "mod_gzip_send_vary=Yes" disables caching on IE?
(1.3.26.1a)


> I 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.
>
> It's even more strange than I first thought...
> Without "Content-Encoding: gzip", it appears IE 6 will not cache pages
> containing *any* type of Vary header. (By "will not cache" I mean that
after
> the page is loaded once, it is reloaded every time you pass by it using
> Back/Forward.)
>
> Below are some tests I performed with PHP. mod_gzip was not installed.
>
> This will cache:
>
>   echo "Hi";
>
> This will NOT cache:
>
>   header("Vary: Accept-Encoding");
>   echo "Hi";
>
> This will NOT cache:
>
>   header("Vary: blahblah");
>   echo "Hi";
>
> This will cache:
>
>   header("Content-Encoding: gzip");
>   echo gzencode("Hi2");
>
> This will cache:
>
>   header("Vary: Accept-Encoding");
>   header("Content-Encoding: gzip");
>   echo gzencode("Hi2");
>
> This will cache:
>
>   header("Vary: blahblah");
>   header("Content-Encoding: gzip");
>   echo gzencode("Hi2");
>
>
> Jordan Russell
>
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