From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7 Description of problem: I've noticed recently that the builtin deflate module is not working properly. It is impossible to compress any ohter mime-type than text/html. For example text/xml is not working For example if I add the Following line to the httpd.conf AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml or AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml or AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/* nothing but text/html is compressed. The deflate module is a core module of the apache server and should be working properly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): httpd-2.0.40-21.9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install httpd 2. add LoadModuleDirective for defalte module 3. add Outputfilter DEFLATE for text/xml mime type to httpd.conf 4. Try to get a xml file delivered compressed Actual Results: Nothing, thats the point Expected Results: the file should be transfered compressed. I already told you. Additional info:
I can reproduce this as well. It seems to be fixed in FC1. I've had no luck making it work in RH9, however. (If the SMP kernel were stable running NFS umounts, I'd have upgraded already, but I cannot upgrade with a stock redhat kernel until http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109497 is fixed)
Yes it's a bug in 2.0.40; we'll include the fix in a forthcoming erratum.
An errata 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/RHSA-2004-182.html