Re: Going crazy over mod_deflate

Cabbar Duzayak wrote: > Before I start, I am using apache 2.0.52 with PHP 4.3.9. > > In my .htaccess, I have a rewrite rule that rewrites /bb.flv as > /bb.php, and this bb.php file reads a flv file and outputs it. In the > PHP file, I am specifying content-type as video/x-flv and > content-length, however mod_deflate still compresses this, and also > removes the content-length header from the response, and this messes > up the flv player!... > > I tried everything, simply everything, and yet could not get > mod_deflate to by-pass this file. For some reason, it does not see > this content as video/x-flv, and treats is as regular text???? And, > when I disable the mod_deflate filter, everything returns back to > normal. BTW, I am not doing any compression on the PHP side!... > > Things I tried are: > > + AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml > > + SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \ > \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png|flv)$ no-gzip dont-vary have you tried something like this:? \(?:\/bb\.php|.(?:gif|jpe?g|png|flv))$ no-gzip dont-vary > > I tried putting these in <directory>, <location>, <virtual> and global > context, and none of them worked. Additionally, I tried to rewrite the > type using the rewriterule as: > RewriteRule ^bb.flv /bb.php [T=video/x-flv] > > I also tried ForcedType, AddTpe, AddOutputFilter (by extension), etc. etc. > > But, still the output is compressed. And, the response headers I am > seeing are: > > content-disposition: inline; filename=123.flv > Vary: Accept-Encoding > Content-Encoding: gzip > Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=96 > Connection: Keep-Alive > Transfer-Encoding: chunked > Content-Type: video/x-flv > > Can you please tell what I am missing here and/or is there anyway I > can by-pass the mod_deflate compression? > > TIA. >