Randomness from RES » IE http://www.robertswarthout.com Things that I run across that might be useful to others... Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:56:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 IE 6, Apache mod_deflate, blank pages… http://www.robertswarthout.com/2007/05/ie-6-apache-mod_deflate-blank-pages/ http://www.robertswarthout.com/2007/05/ie-6-apache-mod_deflate-blank-pages/#comments Sun, 20 May 2007 16:42:10 +0000 Robert Swarthout http://www.robertswarthout.com/rswarthout/2007/05/ie-6-apache-mod_deflate-blank-pages/ I just ran across an interesting bug in IE 6 when a page is loading an external javascript file. If Apache is outputting the external javascript compressed (gzip) IE will do one of the following things:

  1. Return a blank page
  2. Try loading the page forever

Prior to finding this bug, our apache settings for mod_deflate looked like…

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/css text/xml text/plain application/x-javascript

Now it looks like…

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript application/x-javascript
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.[0678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE\s7Â !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

Making these changes seemed to have fixed the issue. Now when a page is loaded in IE6, any external javascript file will not be gzipped and their page load will be slower. I suppose that is punishment for not upgrading to IE7 or getting Firefox.

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