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

[Joe Laffey]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 Michael.Schroepl@telekurs.de wrote:

>
> Hi Joe,
>
>
> > The only problem is that the latest and great IE 5.2.2 for
> > the Mac still does not properly handle compressed content
> > that has been cached by squid. I get this problem all the
> > time locally. I have a local squid and a local server with
> > mod_gzip. Any hosts for which I have not told IE to go direct
> > (bypass squid) will get cached on the squid box. This gets
> > cached compressed. Then the next time I look at it in IE 5
> > Mac (or any IE Mac) I get a dialog saying IE cannot hanlde
> > this content (gzip mime type) do you want to save it to the
> > disk, etc. A reload fixes the problem, but this is still a
> > problem.
>
> what about the M$IE settings that you are using?
>
> You might want to visit
>      http://www.schroepl.net/projekte/msie/
> and read
>      http://www.schroepl.net/projekte/mod_gzip/browser.htm#Microsoft
>
> for further details.

Unfortunately, this page only give details for windoze versions of IE.
This is a Mac version. I have searched and searched since version 4.5 and
never found any HTTP 1.1 setting in the Mac version.

The page above claims my browser is not setnd the Accept-Encoding: gzip
line.

It took me TONS of complaining to get MS to FINALLY add the pragma:
no-cache header for a super reload. They ept saying it wasn't needed. So I
showed them how the PC version of IE did it, and that version worked right
through proxies (this is another issue altogether, having nothing to do
with mod_gzip, per se.)


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