Yeah, it should only Vary on Accept-encoding (already does). It's still not
perfect, but at least it doesn't blow up proxies too much.
The question to people with statistics - are there any other issues with
gzip/proxy configurations?
Sergey
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com> wrote:
> IIUC, the vary: user-agent to accomodate Netscape 4 is a pain for
> caches because obviously they can only vary on the entire user-agent.
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_deflate.html
>
> Is it time to move this aspect of the snippet into a separate note or
> some historical trivia section, to remove the Vary?
>
> --
>
> On the same topic, are there still non-academic CSS and JS compression
> issues (e.g. XP-era browsers, earlier, later, ???) Should we instead
> account for these in the "complicated/more compression" example, and
> is there a way to do so without adding the Vary right back in?
>
>
> --
> Eric Covener
> cove...@gmail.com
>
