Simultaneously enable gzip and $STR_REPLACE in CGI in apache

Question

I have a code in my CGI script for text replacement (for example replace 'red' with 'blue')

$STR_SEARCH='red'
$STR_REPLACE='blue'
I am using the below code in .htaccess for enable replace function: (RequestHeader unset Accept-Encoding)

This work fine. But when I want to use gzip for compression, gzip does not work. If I disable the replace, gzip works fine. Please help me understand how I can enable the replace and gzip simultaneously?

Answer 1

Hi Alex,

 

You should post your EXACT CGI script and/or .HTACCESS file.  Many things (including typos) can cause such issues.  Browsers may fallback to "uncompressed" if there is a single issue!  The following HTTP 1.1 header value is of primary importance:

 

Content-Encoding: gzip

"If multiple encodings have been applied to an entity, the content
codings MUST be listed in the order in which they were applied."

 

Please look at the links below, to see if they provide helpful information, and keep them as a reference:

 

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-14.11

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/info/rzaie/rzaiemod_headers.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_compression

 

If you continue to have trouble, then please write back (and be sure to include your Apache version number).

 

Thanks,

Chris