disable gzip based on user-agent

[Wayne E. Seguin]

On 10/18/07, Eden Li <eden at mojiti.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to turn off gzip compression based on $http_user_agent?  I
> tried:
>
>   if ($http_user_agent ~* msie\s+6\.0) { gzip off; }
>
> Except nginx says that I can't put gzip there.  Is there another way?
>
> Background for those interested: Flash in IE6 can't handle gzipped
> content even though it advertises that it can.
>
> Thanks,
> eden



I also would like to know if this is possible. We ended up disabling gzip
for the sub-locations with flash (sub-optimal solution).

  ~Wayne
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