[drupal-support] PHP compression and cacheing

[Dries Buytaert]

Julian Bond wrote:

> I think there's a possible problem with PHP zlib.output_compression = 
> on and Drupal caching. I have zlib.output_compression = on in php.ini 
> on the server. I've seen a couple of instances where setting drupal 
> output caching to enabled resulted in either blank pages coming back 
> or random ascii text as though the output was being double encoded. 
> Does this ring any bells? Setting caching off always seems to cure it.
>

This rings a bell -- alas Moshe reported a similar issue.  To date, we 
haven't been able to reproduce nor fix it. From what I have been told, 
it is specific to IE <some-version>. More details or investigation would 
be appreciated. 

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