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

I have seen problems when using gzip with Internet Explorer on a page that has flash on it. If your page has flash this may be why. I don't remember the cause and at the time we found it it was causing problems on a live site so we just disabled gzip for Internet Explorer to get around it.