compression on behalf of a user agent possible?

[royfake]

Hi,

 

Can I get apache to compress data on behalf of the browser/agent?

 

I am running a web app from my site. When the apps' initialization files download (xpi or cab) and run on the client machine it opens a connection to the apache server and retrieves a bunch of DLL files (~20MB).

My problem is that the app connects as an independent user agent which apache with mod_deflate does not recognize as being able to support compression, so the DLL files get sent in their full size.

 

Here is my mod_deflate config (after enabling the module):

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
##
## Which type of files do we want to compress:
##
#AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/octet-stream
AddOutputFilter DEFLATE dll
##
## Format the log file in the following way:
##
DeflateFilterNote Input input_info
DeflateFilterNote Output output_info
DeflateFilterNote Ratio ratio_info
LogFormat '"%{User-Agent}i" "%r" %{output_info}n/%{input_info}n (%{ratio_info}n%%)' deflate
CustomLog "C:\Apache\Apache2\logs\deflate.log" deflate
##
## Disable compression for older browsers
##
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
</IfModule>

 

If I point my browser to a specific file location apache will compress and serve it. Now, when the app requests the same files they will be served not compressed.

 

Any suggestions, solutions..?

 

Best regards,

Roy