mod_deflate and PHP

Hello all,

I'm currently using mod_deflate, enabled with the following option:

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml

Everything works fine except that some users using Adobe Reader 7 or
older (the only versions confirmed to be ok are 9.1 and 9.3) seem
to have problems opening the PDF files. These are generated PDFs based
on the options selected in a form. It seems to me that
apache is failing to detect that the output is a PDF file and is
compressing the PDF file causing those users to have problems.

Does any one have any suggestions on how to avoid this problem? Is
there a way for me to say something like:
"Check the value of header X and if it has value Y then don't compress" ?

Any input would be very welcomed. Thank your for your time.

-r

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Re: mod_deflate and PHP

On 23 Mar 2010, at 18:30, Roger wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm currently using mod_deflate, enabled with the following option:
>
> AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml

AddOutputFilterByType configures the filter *before* your PHP (or other
dynamic contents) have determined content-type.

See the mod_filter page for a solution that works with dynamic and
proxied contents.

--
Nick Kew

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Re: mod_deflate and PHP

Thanks a lot, that is definitely what I was looking for.

-r

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