Re: Apache serving files weirdly? (solved)
Well, thanks Colin. You solved the problem.
I was Apache's mod_gzip that was causing the trouble. the mod_gzip website
has no indication that this would cause a problem... but oh well. This is
important information... perhaps we should contact the owner and tell
him/her to put it in the documentation or website?
Anyway, thanks :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Lim" <maillist@jasonlim.com>
To: "Colin Watson" <cjwatson@debian.org>; <debian-isp@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: Apache serving files weirdly?
> Hi,
>
>
> > > Try and load up:
> > > http://www.zentek-international.com/index-test.shtml
> > >
> > > In IE5.5-6 and NS6.x, it works.
> > >
> > > Anything under that (eg. NS4.x) and the page doesn't look right.
I've
> > > narrowed it down to the:
> > > <link rel="stylesheet" title="Default"
> > > href="http://www.zentek-international.com/common/zentek.css";>
> >
> > Looking at this server, you have mod_gzip enabled and are serving out
> > compressed .css files. Some browsers, such as Netscape 4.x, claim to
be
> > able to handle this but can't. The same goes for .js files.
> >
> > Is this at all accurate? If so, I suggest you disable compression for
> > text/css and application/x-javascript. If not, try installing tcpflow
> > and getting traces of the outgoing and incoming parts of the request.
>
> You're right... mod_gzip is enabled.
>
> I thought that NS.4x handled this well... i mean, they handled regular
> html files served by the apache mod_gzip.
>
> I will try your recommendation and disable the compression of .css
files,
> and .js, and see if that improves anything (i will post back here).
>
> Thanks.
>
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