gzip compression and internet explorer 6/7

[Mathijs Kwik]

Hi Igor,

Found the problem.
Didn't read the logs well enough, the requests that didn't get
compression were all 304's (not modified).

Sorry for the alarm.

tnx,
Mathijs

On 10/26/07, Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 04:44:42PM +0200, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
>
> > I'm new to nginx but I already like it after just an hour of trying/configuring.
> > I'm using nginx 0.5.32 as a load-balancer in front of some mongrel
> > clusters (rails).
> > I use this bit for gzip-compression:
> >
> > gzip  on;
> > gzip_http_version 1.0;
> > gzip_min_length  1100;
> > gzip_comp_level 2;
> > gzip_proxied any;
> > gzip_types       text/plain text/html text/css text/xml
> > application/x-javascript application/pdf application/xml
> > application/xml+rss text/javascript;
> >
> > I also use "$gzip_ratio" in my logging-format.
> >
> > I noticed gzipping works perfectly when firefox connects, but when
> > IE6/7 connects to nginx, this field always shows "-".
> >
> > Is there any known issue with gzip and IE ?
>
> Responses for IE should be gzipped.
>
> Could you make debug log:
>
> ./configure --with-debug ...
>
> nginx.conf:
>
> error_log  /path/to/log debug;
>
> ?
>
>
> --
> Igor Sysoev
> http://sysoev.ru/en/
>
>