Oops. Sorry, you are correct. I did not look at the ob_gzhandler. I just
thought of the ob_start function.
But I remember gz encoding works fine with IE 5. Shouldn't be a problem with
5.5.
Cheers,
Prathap
---------- Original Message -----------
From: Rasmus Lerdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Prathaban Mookiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Kirsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, php-general@lists.php.net
Sent: Fri, 06 May 2005 14:31:04 -0700
Subject: Re: [PHP] Reducing size of htm output
> Prathaban Mookiah wrote:
> > Is it true that ob_start("ob_gzhandler") can cause problems on IE 5.5+?
> > ====
> > Since IE <any-version> is on the client side, it shouldn't cause any
problems
> > to ob_start(), in that case any other PHP function.
>
> That's not true. ob_gzhandler is extremely browser-dependant since
> it needs to check to see if the browser sent an appropriate accept-encoding
> header. Some of the early IE versions sent accept-encoding: gzip but
> didn't correctly implement it, so you can run into problems if you
> use ob_gzhandler with certain older browsers. It is fine for all
> the recent releases though.
>
> -Rasmus
>
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