On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 10:30:03PM +0800, Eden Li wrote:
Flash in IE6 has issues if you make requests via its ActionScript API.
IE6 tacks on an `Accept-Encoding: gzip,default` when it makes the
request, but when the server actually returns a gzipped body the Flash
plugin barfs all over it.
Flash in any browser does not understand gzipping and this is well known
fact, at least for me :). I developed mod_deflate for Apache 1.3 long ago
and had documented this here (in Russian):
http://sysoev.ru/mod_deflate/readme.html#types
http://sysoev.ru/mod_deflate/readme.html#browsers
So the single way is disable gzip in locations which are requested
from Flash. It is not depeneded on browser.
I haven't seen any other corner cases like this, but I'm sure there's
another one out there. I've just disabled gzip encoding for
mime-types that are limited to what our Flash app is pulling, but it'd
be nice to switch it on and off without having to resort duplicating
rules in different location bodies. IE6 is still the dominant
browser, unfortunately.
On 11/27/07, Athan Dimoy <foxx-Y8qEzhMunLxMo1R+fwT...@public.gmane.org> wrote:
"Igor Sysoev" <is-G...@public.gmane.org> wrote in message
news:2007...@public.gmane.org
Well, I think compressing CSS for MSIE6 should be hardcoded disabled.
Are other modern browsers those have problems with JS or CSS ?
Hmm, I wouldn't agree that CSS compression for IE6 should be hardcoded
disabled. I'm using CSS compression and never noticed any serious issue with
IE6.
An option switch would be the best fix IMHO.
Athan
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