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The webservers' Gzip compression is messing up my XML or
Flash files for Netscape 4 browsers. How do I turn off
compression?

Just make a file called .htaccess in the directory where you want to turn off gzip compression and put this line in it:

mod_gzip_on Off

That will turn off the compression for all things served from that directory.

If you want to turn off compression on your whole site, you could put that .htaccess file in your home directory. We recommend against turning off mod_gzip compression unnecessarily, since it helps to make your files load faster for your site visitors and saves your bandwidth usage since the files sent as smaller.

The only known problems with automatic gz encoding of web files is with XML or certain Flash files, and those only when viewed with the Netscape 4 browser.

User-Contributed Notes

25-Feb-2004 08:07 This also worked to help clear up a problem with a PHP script not properly flushing data to the browser with the flush() function.

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