Title: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] "Browser Cache" feature broken
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] "Browser Cache" feature broken

 *  [tinuzz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tinuzz/)
 * (@tinuzz)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-browser-cache-feature-broken/)
 * Today, I got some complaints from users, that were offered a file download instead
   of my website. One user was helpful enough to tell me, that he was served gzip
   encoded content without a ‘Content-Encoding: gzip’ header.
 * I tracked this to the ‘Browser Cache’ feature of this plugin.
 * Can you check if there is a bug, where not all the necessary headers are sent
   to the client?
 * This problem dos not seem to be present in all browsers on all OSs. For example,
   I could not reproduce it with Chrome or Firefox on Ubuntu, but it occurred with
   all browsers incl. IE on Windows and with Chrome on Mac. With ‘curl’ it was quite
   reproduceable.
 * Also, it does not occur for all URLs, for example ‘/wp/archives/1431/’ showed
   the problem, but ‘/wp/archives/1431/?123’ did not.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-browser-cache-feature-broken/#post-2516056)
 * Can you please submit a bug submission form from the support tab of the plugin?

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 * Last reply from: [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-browser-cache-feature-broken/#post-2516056)
 * Status: not resolved