gzip compression and internet explorer 6/7

[Igor Sysoev]

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;

?


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