[TAP5-1880] GZip compression should be disabled if the request is over http 1.0

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.3.2
• Fix Version/s: 5.3.4, 5.4
• Component/s: tapestry-core
• Labels: gzip ie
• Assignee: Howard Lewis Ship
• Reporter: Paul Stanton
• Created: 21/Mar/12 00:31
• Updated: 11/Jun/12 17:21
• Resolved: 11/Jun/12 17:21

Description

Internet explorer when behind a proxy defaults to using HTTP 1.0 (instead of HTTP 1.1) and in this scenario, GZIP compression is still applied to the response and the clients do not interpret the response correctly.

This may either be caused by the client incorrectly setting 'accept-encoding' or incorrectly reading the 'encoding' headers at either end, however since it only occurs over http 1.0 it should just be disabled for all http 1.0 requests.