Gzip issue

Server NGINX
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Hello!

I use gzip feature with following configuration.
If upstream server doesn’t make a gzip file, everything is ok and
perfect.

However if upstream server makes a gzip file, NGINX always send a gzip
file to client.
in this case, NGINX doesn’t check both accep-enconding and user-agent.

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gzip configuration w/ nginx/0.8.53

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gzip_static on;
gzip on;
gzip_buffers 64 8k; # 64*8 = 512kbytes
gzip_comp_level 2;
gzip_http_version 1.0;
gzip_types text/plain text/css application/x-javascript text/xml
application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript
application/javascript;
gzip_min_length 1100;
gzip_disable “msie6”;
gzip_vary on;

/YM

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Hello!

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 04:38:56AM -0500, doors wrote:

Hello!

I use gzip feature with following configuration.
If upstream server doesn’t make a gzip file, everything is ok and
perfect.

However if upstream server makes a gzip file, NGINX always send a gzip
file to client.
in this case, NGINX doesn’t check both accep-enconding and user-agent.

If upstream server returned gzip response - nginx won’t touch it.
It’s expected behaviour.

If you really want nginx to gunzip upstream responses - you may
install gunzip module as available here:

http://mdounin.ru/hg/ngx_http_gunzip_filter_module/
http://mdounin.ru/hg/files/ngx_http_gunzip_filter_module-0.3.tar.gz

Maxim D.