All pages in website download .GZ file

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  • Fishbreath

    (@fishbreath)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    This happens for me, too, on the latest 4.8.1.

    It appears that the headers are wrong. The webserver sends:

    Content-Type: application/x-gzip

    It should be sending:

    Content-Type: text/html
    Content-Encoding: gzip

    Please let us know how to fix this—it makes for a dramatically worse user experience.

    Fishbreath

    (@fishbreath)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    Some further experimentation suggests that this happens when apache2 on the server is configured to gzip at page load time (as it is in the Ubuntu mod_deflate config file). This results in double-compression. Disabling WP Super Cache compression fixes the issue, but does do the compression work on every page load.

    Plugin Author Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)

    (@donncha)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    So, this was always an issue for you? As @fishbreath said, disable compression in Apache. That should help. The plugin compresses files to save CPU on every request but if your site isn’t that busy you won’t notice a difference between the plugin doing it and Apache doing it.

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