Why is gzip compression with Internet Explorer not working?

Question

My site is gzipped compressed, and it doesn\'t load properly in IE. It works fine in FF/Chrome, but in IE, the only thing that pops up is a box asking to download the .gz fi

Answer 1

One thing to add - you should turn off gzip compression for IE6 pre-SP2. Before SP2, IE6 doesn't always read and cache gzipped content properly and you end up with mangled code.

You can identify an IE6 SP2 install by looking for "SV1" in the user-agent string.