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David Wolever
Asked: 2009-10-20 05:25:00 +0800 CST

Apache mod_deflate not deflating…

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I'm having some trouble with mod_deflate… Specifically, that it's not actually deflating anything.

I'm running Apache2 and Debian 4. I've a2enmod deflate'd, and put this in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/deflate.conf:

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain

Yet, when I curl -I http://host/robots.txt, I don't see any headers suggesting the output is being deflated (and this suspicion is confirmed when I tail access.log, and see that my DeflateFilterNote in the logs is -). I know that "it's plugged in", because if I add:

SetEnv force-gzip "yes"

The output is compressed.

So, am I doing something obvious and stupid wrong? Or… What?

apache-2.2

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    mod_deflate won't send compressed output unless the client indicates that it supports it. The client does this by sending a header of Accept-Encoding: gzip in the original request.

    curl doesn't do this by default. But you can instruct it to do so with the command:

    curl --compressed -I http://host/robots.txt
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