Re: Re: [PHP4BETA] gz encoding?

On Sun, 12 Dec 1999 13:18:04 +0100, Christian Schneider wrote: >> It's not just a rumour, I've seen IE barf when using cvsweb which gzip >> encodes when viewing the full text of a chosen revision. This was with both >> IE v4 and v5 if I remember right. > >Are you sure you don't mix up .gz files vs. Accept-Encoding: gzip? The former >can be a simple server configuration problem. >I tried IE 4.5 (Mac) and IE 5 (Windows) and both handled Accept-Encoding: gzip >correctly. I haven't mixed them up, I understand the difference. cvsweb is a Perl CGI that does the following: print "Content-type: text/plain\n"; print "Content-encoding: x-gzip\n\n"; open(GZIP, "|gzip -1 -c"); # need lightweight compression print GZIP <RCS>; close(GZIP); where RCS is a pipe from a "co -p" command. It works fine for Netscape but IE shows the raw compressed data as text. Maybe the x- in x-gzip confuses IE, it sends Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate -- ______________________________________________________________________________ | Brian Havard | "He is not the messiah! | | brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au | He's a very naughty boy!" - Life of Brian | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------