Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of GZIPFilter

Timestamp:

Mar 23, 2009, 5:23:09 AM (15 years ago)

Author:

simonp

Comment:

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GZIPFilter

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 === Backwards Compatibility Issues ===
 
-Some allusion is made in various places on the net to early versions of browsers not properly supporting compressed content - see [http://www.http-compression.com/ for a discussion of http compression and browser support]. The short answer is that the browsers we want to support (IE 7+, Firefox 2+ and others) all support compressed content without issues.
+Some allusion is made in various places on the net to early versions of browsers not properly supporting compressed content - see [http://www.http-compression.com/ for a discussion of http compression and browser support]. The short answer is that the browsers we want to support (IE 7+, Firefox 2+ and others) all support compressed content without issues BUT there have been reports of gzip compression causing confusion on Windows Vista. If Vista is an issue then perhaps this Vista clients can be trapped by examining http headers and switching off gzip compression for such requests.
 
 == Risks ==
 
-Unknown.
+Vista users? Needs more testing to show this up.
 
 == Participants ==