What gzip_types are recommended?

[KT Walrus]

I was just thinking that it might be good to say what charset the .css  
uses rather than relying on the browser to default to the correct  
encoding.

As I said, I'm just trying to learn and this particular example of  
replacing a header might not be the best, but I would like to  
understand how to replace headers.

On Dec 10, 2008, at 12:15 AM, mike wrote:

> 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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