[Phpmyadmin-devel] Confirmation needed: mod_deflate

[Marc Delisle]

Le 2013-08-09 02:49, Michal Čihař a écrit :
> Hi
>
> Dne Wed, 07 Aug 2013 12:30:44 -0400
> Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info> napsal(a):
>
>> In Export we can ask for a gzip compression. On Apache server with
>> mod_deflate, this *can* produce a doubly-compressed file, depending on
>> the Apache configuration (see [0]).
>>
>> We can detect whether mod_deflate is loaded, but not whether it's
>> configured to compress only certain MIME types. The detection is in
>> place, producing bug [1].
>>
>> So I suggest to disable gzip compression in the export choices, when we
>> detect the presence of mod_deflate.
>>
>> [0] https://sourceforge.net/p/phpmyadmin/bugs/3673/
>
> IMHO this person has broken mod_deflate setup, so rather he should fix
> that than we adjust our code to that. We correctly send headers that
> the content is compressed, so mod_deflate should not touch that.
>
> So I'm for removing check for mod_deflate, which would fix this:
>
>> [1] https://sourceforge.net/p/phpmyadmin/bugs/4025/

Agreed,  Iwill work on this.


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