we see, it wasnt ... cool, but the answer is in steven's email, and
worked like a CHARM!
:) tw
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:48:32 -0400, Steven Erat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For anyone trying to get to that link, it seems that the server is down
> completely right now... have to talk to my ISP about that.
>
> The problem is that if compression is enabled for applications and/or static
> content in IIS, Java clients can't decompress the content, including the
> ColdFusion server. There seems to be a compatibility problem with the
> compression algorithms used (I assume).
>
> The solution or workaround is to add two headers to the request using
> CFHTTPPARAM where the values for those headers include a "quality factor"
> described in the HTTP 1.1 RFC, if I recall correctly. The quality factor is
> set with a numeric value from 0 to 100, where 0 indicates the least
> preference for the Header context. Using the headers with this quality
> factor (;q=0) is like telling the webserver that you prefer that it not
> compress the content of the HTTP Response.
>
> The headers to include are:
>
> <cfhttpparam type="Header" name="Accept-Encoding" value="deflate;q=0">
> <cfhttpparam type="Header" name="TE" value="deflate;q=0">
>
> This way the IIS webserver continues to compress output for all requests,
> except those requests that specify a preference to receive uncompressed
> content.
>
> I don't know exactly why Java clients can't decompress the IIS compressed
> content, but I'd be interested to know if anyone can elaborate on that.
>
> -Steve
>
> _____
>
> From: Tony Weeg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 9:57 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: connection failure cfhttp
>
> thanks dave, but i figured it out, after i read this on steven erat's
> blog...
>
> i was hitting an iis6 box, and it has some sort of auto-compression
> type stuff...anyway, got it!
>
> thanks.
>
> http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm?data=""> >
> tw
>
>
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