Re: [privoxy-devel] bug in php compression?

[Fil <fi...@re...>]

@ Andreas Oesterhelt <oe...@oe...> :
> > http://uzine.net/spip if you want to know more). We're trying hard to
> > circumvent the php bug with ob_gz_handler, but one of our users tells us
> > that he has problems with privoxy.
> 
> Yes, that's a known bug in PHP's ob_gzhandler. It has been resolved in
> PHP 4.2.3. As a workaround, you can use zlib.output_compression instead
> of the ob_gzhandler.

Is it not possible to detect that the connection comes from privoxy? Doesn't
it add a Proxy: header to the HTTP request? Most proxies do somehow add
their names to the request.

> As a proxy-side workaround, your user can add the offending sites to a
> -prevent-comptression section in his Privoxy configuration.

True. But we'd prefer a server-side workaround independent of the php
version, if we can make it.

-- Fil