What gzip_types are recommended?

[mike]

why would you add a header that is already sent by default?

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 8:50 PM, KT Walrus <kevin at my.walr.us> wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> Is there a delete_header or replace_header directive?
>
> I'm trying to specify the character encoding for my css file, and this
> results in two Content-Type headers:
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Server: nginx/0.6.34
> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:43:16 GMT
> Content-Type: text/css
> Content-Length: 12577
> Last-Modified: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:39:22 GMT
> Connection: keep-alive
> Cache-Control: max-age=86400, must-revalidate
> Content-Type: text/css; charset=iso-8859-1
> Accept-Ranges: bytes
>
> I suppose this is a mostly pointless thing to do, but I'm trying to learn
> how nginx works with headers.
>
> I expected that when I did "add_header Content-Type" that it would have the
> option of replacing any existing header.
>
> Kevin
>
> On Dec 9, 2008, at 6:34 PM, mike wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:40 PM, KT Walrus <kevin at my.walr.us> wrote:
>>>
>>> What gzip_types are safe to compress with most  browsers?  Can javascript
>>> and css be safely compressed?
>>
>> I have this
>> gzip_types text/plain text/css application/x-javascript text/xml
>> application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
>>
>> seems to work well. Never had any complaints.
>>
>>
>>> http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpGzipModule#gzip_types
>>>
>>> Might be nice to update the link above with the answer.
>>>
>>> Also, can I make sure that Javascript and CSS files are cached for the
>>> user
>>> and can I set an Expires: time for these file types?
>>
>> Yes
>>
>> location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html)$ {
>>       expires max;
>> }
>>
>>
>>> Thanks.  I'm new to nginx and I am trying it out to see how much it helps
>>> with performance for a PHP coded forum site.
>>>
>>
>> http://getfirebug.com + yslow! for firefox. makes determining this stuff
>> easy
>>
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