Content-Encoding: gzip AND Content-Type:
Joseph Link (joelink@joelink.net)
Wed, 06 Sep 2000 23:39:54 -0500
Hello all...
I have run into a problem with Netscape 4.x and some earlier versions of IE...
The following is the server info being generated by me
telnet www1 8050
Trying 208............
Connected to www1.......
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /...... HTTP/1.0
Accept-Encoding: gzip
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 03:09:40 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) PHP/4.0.2 mod_ssl/2.6.4 OpenSSL/0.9.5a
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.0.2
Expires: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 03:09:43 GMT
Content-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/x-javascript
When I use Netscape to retrieve this same file, I get errors about
unrecognized characters in javascript... it isnt decoding the gzip and the
js interpreter is decoding binary.
However, if I remove the Content-Type: application/x-javascript header,
netscape does decode the gzip and display the file. In order for me to use
this as a SRCed js file I NEED the Content-Type: application/x-javascript
header.
Is there a header that is missing?? Does anyone know a workaround??
Essentially, i need to be able to send a gzip encoded javascript file and
have it interpretted.. This does work fine with IE 5. Is it just another
example of NS 4 blatant disregard for standards?? Or am I reading the
standard wrong and encodings of types other than html are not allowed?
Thank you
Joe
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