#8 POST method failing

[Surojit Mundle]

Peregrine Systems)which dynamically creates jsp files
to provide a web view for a WAN application.

However the main form used for this is very heavy (
almost 430KB) so we have tried to use compression.
However POST requests do not work, in the log a
message comes - SEND AS IS.

Our configurations is
HP UX 11.0
Apache 1.0
NewAtlanta Servlet Exec( Servlet engine)
Mod-Gzip 1.3.26.1a

The Mid-tier and the Application are on the same HP
server . The clients use Internet Explorer 6.x .

Could you give us a way to make the POST methods
compressed too.

The release notes mention this being fixed but it says
the pages are just not compressed.

Thanks in advance
Surojit

[Michael Schröpl]

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mod_gzip 1.3.26.1a does handle POST requests if you
configure it appropriately.
Therefore I like to see your configuration section for
mod_gzip to find out more about your problem.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Hi,

thanks for the response, i had pretty much given up hope
from here.

Do you mean the changes in the httpd.conf file ??

I could send you the file .

regds
Surojit

[Michael Schröpl]

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You did read
http://www.schroepl.net/projekte/mod_gzip/config.htm#requirements
of course?

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Hi,
I apologize if I am sounding rather ignorant on the subject. I
inherited this from a colleague and have not gone into this
too much. I will go through your site and get back to you
soon after being a little more sure of my facts.

On taking a quick glance this is what I found:
The line "mod_gzip_handle_methods GET POST" was not
in the httpd.conf file.

I will implement it and try. The mod_gzip entries in the conf
file are listed below.
=========================
<IfModule mod_gzip.c>
mod_gzip_on Yes
mod_gzip_can_negotiate Yes
AddEncoding gzip .gz
mod_gzip_keep_workfiles No
mod_gzip_minimum_file_size 1
mod_gzip_maximum_file_size 500000
mod_gzip_maximum_inmem_size 60000
mod_gzip_min_http 1000
mod_gzip_item_include file .jsp
mod_gzip_item_exclude file .GIF
mod_gzip_item_exclude file .gif
</IfModule>
</Directory>
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regds
Surojit

[Michael Schröpl]

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> On taking a quick glance this is what I found:
> The line "mod_gzip_handle_methods GET POST"
> was not in the httpd.conf file.
> I will implement it and try.

Good idea.

> mod_gzip_can_negotiate Yes

Are you making use of this feature (serving statically
precompressed files)?
Otherwise you only create load on your CPU.

> mod_gzip_minimum_file_size 1

I would suggest a value a little higher, about 300-1000 bytes.

> mod_gzip_min_http 1000

I don't think this is a good idea. It will make your
mod_gzip create "Vary:*" headers and prevent from caching
proxies to cooperate with your server, while gaining nothing
in return (clients supporting less than HTTP/1.0 aren't
actually out there I guess).