I believe eli is correct. the gzip header seems to stripped as it
leaves our network. we do have a hardware firewall, still need to find
out how its configured

thanks to everyone, sorry for all the fuss

On Jan 20, 1:13 pm, Eli Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> Oh, and I mentioned this in my reply on the Issue page... but I'll put it
> here so others can see the correct way to test.
>
> Mainly, you should create a test page that just prints out what Browser
> Headers it receives whenever someone visits it.
>
> That way, you can verify if it's really receiving the gzip header.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Eli Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I would say that you this issue here...
>
> > Your work firewall trusts *.google.com (which is where dashboard comes
> > from) but does not trust *.appspot.com (which is where the apps are
> > running from).
>
> > Thus.. gzip headers get mangled for *.appspot.com traffic.. so the
> > firewall can scan the packets.
>
> > I think this is the issue that most people are facing who are complaining
> > that appspot is not gzipping traffic.
>
> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Flips <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> I have discovered that I get compressed content when I am at home. If
> >> I am at work I do not get compressed content via app engine. We use a
> >> dedicated hardware firewall, but I do not think that this is the
> >> problem because I recieve the app engine dashboard compressed and
> >> according to its response headers it is using the google frontend too.
>
> >> On 20 Jan., 17:07, bFlood <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > issue created here with Test Url:
> >>http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2657
>
> >> > On Jan 19, 10:35 pm, "Wesley Chun (Google)" 
> >> > <[email protected]<wesc%[email protected]>
>
> >> > wrote:
>
> >> > > niklas does have a workaround, but some users are indeed running into
> >> > > this problem where there shouldn't be an issue, especially since it's
> >> > > documented that App Engine supports it, as detailed here:
> >>http://code.google.com/appengine/kb/general.html#compression
>
> >> > > however, it's not a universal issue as i'm also using FF3 (Mac) but do
> >> > > NOT have this problem:
>
> >> > > REQUEST
>
> >> > > Host    XXX.appspot.com
> >> > > User-Agent      Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US;
> >> rv:
> >> > > 1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032608 Firefox/3.0.8 GTB6
> >> > > Accept
> >>  text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
> >> > > Accept-Language en-us,en;q=0.5
> >> > > Accept-Encoding gzip,deflate
> >> > > Accept-Charset  ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
> >> > > Keep-Alive      300
> >> > > Connection      keep-alive
> >> > > Cache-Control   max-age=0
>
> >> > > RESPONSE
>
> >> > > Content-Type    text/plain
> >> > > Cache-Control   public, max-age=0
> >> > > Content-Encoding        gzip
> >> > > Date    Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:37:23 GMT
> >> > > Server  Google Frontend
> >> > > Content-Length  1571
>
> >> > > this means it's possible there's a problem generating the response.
> >> > > brian and philip, can you guys create an issue for this in the issue
> >> > > tracker? please reference this thread as well as brian's earlier
> >> > > thread in that issue, and i can pass it off to the appropriate team
> >> > > members to investigate. don't forget to star the thing once it's been
> >> > > created. (if you do a search, you'll find other gzip issues but
> >> > > they're all different than yours'.)
>
> >> > > thanks!
> >> > > -- wesley
> >> > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >> > > "Core Python Programming", Prentice Hall, (c)2007,2001
> >> > > "Python Fundamentals", Prentice Hall, (c)2009
> >> > >    http://corepython.com
>
> >> > > wesley.j.chun :: [email protected] <wesc%[email protected]>
> >> > > developer relations :: google app engine
>
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