# Re: Gzipped content being sent to HTTP/1.0 clients?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-gzipped-content-being-sent-to-http-1-0-clients/210151>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [August 1, 2011, 11:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-gzipped-content-being-sent-to-http-1-0-clients/210151 "2011-08-01T11:45:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 11:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-gzipped-content-being-sent-to-http-1-0-clients/210151/1 "2011-08-01T11:45:48Z")

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On 1/08/2011 5:47 p.m., Igor S. wrote:

> ```
> proxy_cache_key "$host$request_uri$gzip";
> 
> ```

Thanks for the pointers! It turns out that my backend was doing gzipping  
without me realizing it (despite it being turned off in phpBB settings,  
Apache’s mod\_deflate was configured to compress pages anyway). I’ve  
turned off all gzip in my backend and now it works correctly.

Cheers,  
Nicholas Sherlock