id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
17552	The GZip Middleware's browser checking is buggy, as it does not send compressed content to modern versions of IE that support it.	Aaron Cannon	nobody	The GZip middleware currently only tests if the browser is IE.  However, there are only three browser versions that I was able to identify with bugs in how they handle GZipped content.  They are IE5, IE6 and Netscape4.  However, the current code assumes that all IE versions have such bugs, and doesn't test at all for Netscape.  This means that a lot of pages that could be compressed aren't being compressed because the browser is IE.  Furthermore, the broken versions of IE and Netscape came out over 10 years ago, so they are a small minority.	Bug	closed	HTTP handling	dev	Normal	fixed	gzip middleware		Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0