[Mod_gzip] mod_gzip and mod_ssl

[Michael.Schroepl at telekurs.de]

HI Etienne,


> I see many references regarding the problem with mod_gzip and mod_ssl 
when
> they are used in the same instance. Some of these references go back to
> prior to 2002.
> Has a version of mod_ssl (or a patch) been released that actually 
corrects
> the problem that mod_ssl causes? I am hoping to not have to implement 
the
> solution that is described in the "mod_gzip with SSL how-to"

I am not sure the mod_ssl implementors consider their implementation as 
being the cause of any problem.
My point of view is that mod_ssl and mod_gzip aren't supposed to directly 
work together in Apache 1.3 as "filtering" isn't a concept of Apache 1.3 
yet.

The workaround using two virtual hosts and mod_proxy is exactly that - a 
workaround, a cascade of two Apaches within one Apache and thus simulating 
a filter concept that Apache 2.x does provide. Remember that mod_gzip 
originally was designed for Apache 2.0 and was only backported to Apache 
1.3, so certain limitations are the result of running mod_gzip in an 
environment it wasn't designed for. (Considering its history mod_gzip 
works very fine in Apache 1.3...)

Regards, Michael
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