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Ian_Stewart_390
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Jan 05, 2005

Compress::Enable

Hi Everyone,     I would like to selectively compress HTTP responses from our server to the client browser. Because of the following IE bugs:     For IE 5.5 : http://support.micr...
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Harold_Deadman_
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Feb 09, 2007
I am enabling compression and the problem described here seems to rule out compression of javascript and css for IE 6.0.

 

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312496

 

 

The first 2048 bytes of CSS and Javascript files get lost and pages end up looking funny or scripts don't work.

 

 

The user-agent for IE6.0 and IE6.0SP1 is the same so I can't selectively compress based on browser unless there is another way to detect that.

 

 

Would it be too much of a hack to pad large javascript files with comments at the beginning so they could be compressed without IE losing anything important? We have some really large javascript files so it would be nice to compress them.

 

 

If I turn on browser workarounds in the profile it seems to fix the problem by turning off caching for IE. Are those browser work around rules defined anywhere? I am wondering if 9.2.2 knows about IE 7.0.