Make ETags take gzip compression into account
The Apache folks are about to fix the problem that ETags are the same for compressed and uncompressed versions of a resource: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39727 Tomcat 6.0.18 suffers from the same problem. The effect is that if a caching proxy holds a gzipped version of a resource and is asked by a client for an unzipped version, it requests one from the server with the ETag of the cached version. The server sees that the ETag of the version it would send out is the same as that of the version the cache already holds and tells the cache that its version is OK (response status code 304). In the case of a Squid cache, this results in a gzipped version to be sent to the client, and this breaks in IE6 and IE7 when they are configured to use the HTTP 1.0 protocol. Squid has been provided with a work-around option for this problem: http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.6/cfgman/broken_vary_encoding.html but we should not rely on caches world-wide to provide a work-around for a Tomcat bug. Regards, Oliver Schoett - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
RE: Make ETags take gzip compression into account
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Oliver Schoett Sent: 15 January 2009 11:05 To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Make ETags take gzip compression into account The Apache folks are about to fix the problem that ETags are the same for compressed and uncompressed versions of a resource: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39727 Tomcat 6.0.18 suffers from the same problem. Please create a bugzilla entry to make sure we don't forget about this. Mark - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
Re: Make ETags take gzip compression into account
Mark Thomas wrote: Please create a bugzilla entry to make sure we don't forget about this. Done: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46538 Unfortunately, I copy/pasted the description from the news posting and now have additional line breaks in the text. Regards, Oliver Schoett - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
