Will nginx support using ssi + gzip?

2009/9/17 Igor Sysoev <is@rambler-co.ru>

> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 05:51:33PM +0800, 191919 wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I encountered a problem when using gzip_min_length with upstream + ssi:
> >
> > ssi on;
> > gzip_min_length 1024;
> > upstream fastcgi_backends
> > {
> > server unix:/tmp/nx-fastcgi.sock.00;
> > }
> >
> > I wrote a PHP script as:
> >
> > <?
> > header('Content-Length: 3');
> > echo '123';
> > ?>
> >
> > and requested as:
> >
> > GET /2.php HTTP/1.0
> > Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
> >
> > nginx returned:
> >
> > HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> > Server: nginx/0.8.15
> > Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:39:57 GMT
> > Content-Type: text/html
> > Connection: close
> > X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.8
> > Vary: Accept-Encoding
> > Content-Encoding: gzip
> >
> > 3426???
> >
> > As you see, the content is compressed despite of gzip_min_length = 1024.
> >
> > When I turned off ssi (ssi off;), gzip_min_length works:
> >
> > HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> > Server: nginx/0.8.15
> > Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:48:11 GMT
> > Content-Type: text/html
> > Connection: close
> > X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.8
> > Content-Length: 3
> > Vary: Accept-Encoding
> >
> > 123
> >
> > (Commenting out "ngx_http_clear_content_length(r);" in
> > ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.c also works, I didn't test whether ssi still
> > worked.)
>
> SSI deletes "Content-Length" so gzip module does not know about it.
>
>
> --
> Igor Sysoev
> http://sysoev.ru/en/
>
>