GZIP problem with backend hosts

[Olivier Bonvalet]

Alan Williamson a écrit :
>
>> I do not know conditions when Amazon may refuse to compresses response,
>> it may have simillar limits as nginx has:
>
> this has ***nothing*** to do with Amazon. I merely was illustrating 
> that our infastructure runs within the EC2 cloud.

NginX do only "HTTP/1.0" requests with backend, so if Amazan do 
compression only for "HTTP/1.1" requests (like NginX seems to do), then 
the result will not be compressed.