Antwort: [Mod_gzip] [ANNOUNCEMENT] mod_gzip 1.3.26.1a

[Christian Kruse]

Hello,

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 02:30:55PM -0400, Terry, Bill  (MARC) wrote:
> Then I should either stick with the old version for now

This is highly not recommended! This could cause various problems with
proxies and different variants. Example: A client that is able to handle
compressed content receives a compressed response and the proxy caches
it. The next client is not able to handle compressed content but as the
proxy was not aware of the response being a negotiation result, it could
do nothing but serve the content to this client as well. I would highly
discourage!

> or exclude Netscape 4 with User Agent.

This is what I am doing, too.

> I think most corporations with proxy servers would use
> only a few different browsers, so that should not be much of a problem.  

Yes. I think so, too. Also there are only seven or eight common browsers:

- IE 5
- IE 5.5
- IE 6
- Mozilla
- NN4
- Opera 5
- Opera 6

So this shouldn't be a real problem.

Greetings,
 CK