Content-Encoding, Proxies and PHP

Hi, I thought using gzip-encoding for browsers that accept it would be a great way to speed up download time and reduce bandwidth. But then I got reports from people getting blank pages. After looking into it it seems they all use proxies. So now I am banging my head against the wall b/c it seems that some proxies can't handle this. I tried it with Apache as a proxy. After alot of testing I have concluded that Apache thinks that the NULL characters included in the gzip file is an end-of-transmission; it won't pass anything past the first NULL character along. As if it doesn't understand the "Content-Encoding" string. Given that there is no way to tell if someone is using a proxy, has anyone found a way around this in PHP? Ciao, Andreas Pour http://www.kde.com/ : Everything KDE http://apps.kde.com/: The Latest in KDE Applications