Nginx 1.4.1 + 'gzip on' causes download of file instead of displaying it in browser

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when i use nginx 1.4.1 + ‘gzip on’, once in every 2 requests i get the
index.php (which its output is text/html) being downloaded by the
browser as
unknown file type instead of displayed in it (the broswer displays the
“download & save” window and writes in this window that its content type
is
‘application/octet-stream’)
after i download it (firefox saves it with file extension ‘part’) - i
see in
the file the response header (200 OK etc.) + body chunked & still
gzipped.
when not using gzip - all works fine.
when switching back to nginx 1.2.8 it never happens - with same
configuration / site / request.
i get to the site thru proxy module, using HTTP/1.1.

thanks in advance
Gad

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i found the bug - the web server returned in “Content-Type” header just
“text/html” and not added “charset=UTF-8”.
why text/html is not enough ?

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Hello!

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 04:52:14AM -0400, gadh wrote:

i found the bug - the web server returned in “Content-Type” header just
“text/html” and not added “charset=UTF-8”.
why text/html is not enough ?

For nginx, there should be no difference. But it looks like you
are debugging complete system which includes backend software,
nginx and a browser.

If you think that the problem is in nginx - first of all I would
recommend you to look into debug log. See
A debugging log for details.

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Maxim D.
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