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 Posted by Prathaban Mookiah on 06/20/68 11:15 
Oops. Sorry, you are correct. I did not look at the ob_gzhandler. I just  
thought of the ob_start function. 
 
But I remember gz encoding works fine with IE 5. Shouldn't be a problem with  
5.5. 
 
Cheers, 
 
Prathap 
 
 
---------- Original Message ----------- 
From: Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> 
To: Prathaban Mookiah <prathap@ee.pdn.ac.lk> 
Cc: Kirsten <neretlis@westnet.com.au>, php-general@lists.php.net 
Sent: Fri, 06 May 2005 14:31:04 -0700 
Subject: Re: [PHP] Reducing size of htm output 
 
> Prathaban Mookiah wrote: 
> > Is it true that ob_start("ob_gzhandler") can cause problems on IE 5.5+? 
> > ==== 
> > Since IE <any-version> is on the client side, it shouldn't cause any  
problems  
> > to ob_start(), in that case any other PHP function. 
>  
> That's not true.  ob_gzhandler is extremely browser-dependant since  
> it needs to check to see if the browser sent an appropriate accept-encoding 
> header.  Some of the early IE versions sent accept-encoding: gzip but 
> didn't correctly implement it, so you can run into problems if you  
> use ob_gzhandler with certain older browsers.  It is fine for all  
> the recent releases though. 
>  
> -Rasmus 
>  
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