conditional mod_deflate based on headers

Posted by Ben K. on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Ben K.
Published on 2010-05-18T16:28:06Z Indexed on 2010/05/18 16:31 UTC
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mod_deflate seems pretty sweet.

I'd love to turn it on across the board for text/html--but for certain pages, I don't want to gzip since upstream proxies need to be able to inspect the content.

I know there's an AddOutputFilterByType directive -- is there any way to combine that w/ a header inspect so that if I see

X-NO-COMPRESS true

I skip mod_deflate?

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