Content-encoding: gzip

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Oct 5 11:35:41 CEST 2006


In message <73096a160610041506w374b315fy32ea1ba4f6826c5 at mail.gmail.com>, "Joseph Mc
Donald" writes:
>Hi,
>
>my backend does gzip compression for clients that support it.  However
>it appears that varnish caches and sends out whatever it got first.
>That is, if a client supports gzip,  than it caches the gzip version.
>If the next client does not support gzip, varnish still sends out the
>gzip version.  and vice versa.
>
>Do I need to configure something for varnish to respect the
>Content-encoding header?

We havn't implemented the Vary: header yet, so we are not able
to do this trick yet.


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