Turn of gzip for two specific locations.

[Igor Sysoev]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:26:21PM -0500, Wayne E. Seguin wrote:

> I've found a lovely issue with IE6 that doesn't allow .swf files to  
> consume XML files that are compressed with gzip so I'm trying to  
> figure out how to turn off gzip compression for two locations.
> 
> One is anything under the /dashboard/gauge/ and the other is anything  
> under /graphs/
> 
> Here's my attempt which doesn't seem to be working:
> 
> Attempt 1:
> server {
> ...
>   location / {
>     if ($uri ~* /dashboard/gauge*) {
>       gzip off;
>     }
> ...
> 
> Attempt 2:
> 
> server {
> ...
> location ^~ /dashboard/gauge* {
>  gzip off;
> }
> 
> location / {
> ...
> 
> Any suggestions on how to do this?

The "if" has many limitation, so it's better to use

   location /graphs/ {
       gzip off;
       ...
   }

   location /dashboard/gauge/ {
       gzip off;
       ...
   }


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