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| author | Luca Toscano <elukey@apache.org> | 2016-02-01 22:33:57 +0000 |
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| committer | Luca Toscano <elukey@apache.org> | 2016-02-01 22:33:57 +0000 |
| commit | 4377b1f9b2a26cad83c568d9c0ce1bec179fcf2c (patch) | |
| tree | 0446eff961c664a05b9d3c4be1528f0576593567 /docs/manual/mod/mod_deflate.html.en | |
| parent | 5496d209ae8a78afd5a0b3b8b5f7037424f55e36 (diff) | |
| download | httpd-4377b1f9b2a26cad83c568d9c0ce1bec179fcf2c.tar.gz | |
Backporting documentation changes from trunk related to mod_cgi/cgid and mod_deflate
git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x@1728020 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_deflate.html.en b/docs/manual/mod/mod_deflate.html.en index cfbbbc7776..48311d91ce 100644 --- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_deflate.html.en +++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_deflate.html.en @@ -252,7 +252,14 @@ content</a></h2> </table> <p>The <code class="directive">DeflateBufferSize</code> directive specifies the size in bytes of the fragments that zlib should compress at one - time.</p> + time. If the compressed response size is bigger than the one specified + by this directive then httpd will switch to chunked encoding + (HTTP header <code>Transfer-Encoding</code> set to <code>Chunked</code>), with the + side effect of not setting any <code>Content-Length</code> HTTP header. This is particularly + important when httpd works behind reverse caching proxies or when httpd is configured with + <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_cache.html">mod_cache</a></code> and <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_cache_disk.html">mod_cache_disk</a></code> because + HTTP responses without any <code>Content-Length</code> header might not be cached. + </p> </div> <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> |