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Disabling mod_deflate for certain files
I received a question regarding my compressed HTTP post. It goes something like this: I want to use a PHP script as a kind of transparent proxy (that is, when I request a file, it downloads it from an other URL and serves it up to me), but mod_deflate keeps eating my Content-Length header. My…
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Compressed HTTP
The HTTP standard allows for the delivered content to be compressed (to be more precise it allows for it to be encoded in different ways, one of the encoding being compression). Under Apache there are two simple ways to do this: Using the mod_deflate Apache module If you have mod_php activated, setting the zlib.output_compression variable…