Bug 177322

Summary:	mod_deflate doesn't compress documents to MSIE
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Tarun Reddy <tvr1>
Component:	httpd	Assignee:	Joe Orton <jorton>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	3.0
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OS:	Linux
URL:	http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24219
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Fixed In Version:	RHBA-2007-0445	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Tarun Reddy 2006-01-09 16:38:51 UTC

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Description of problem:
Due to a bug in mod_setenvif.c, the documented way of enabling compression does not correctly compress non-text/html files to MSIE. Hence, all CSS, JS, and XML files are sent uncompressed.

See URL for Apache bug. This does not exhibit itself in RHES 4 since it is based off of a later version of Apache. However the fix is trivial to back port.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
httpd-2.0.46-56.ent

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable compression using setting at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_deflate.html
2. Connect from Microsoft Internet Explorer to any non text/html URL such as a CSS file or JS file.


Actual Results:  Uncompressed file is returned

Expected Results:  File should have been gzip'd compressed

Additional info:

Comment 7 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-06-11 18:42:21 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0445.html