What happens if a browser doesn't support gzip? - .htaccess

I'm using mod_deflate to enable gzip on a site via the .htaccess file.
What happens if a browser that doesn't support gzip visits the site ?

Then the server doesn't send gzip. That's the whole point of the "Accept-Encoding:" heading from the browser, which indicates this by not having "gzip" in that header.

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Preventing file fownload (any file even css and js) in IIS8

Is there any way to set up IIS in a way that no file can be downloaded? (without xml configuration and using the IIS UI only).
I know I can remove all mime-types but that is inconvenient, I'm looking for a better option.
You cannot stop of css or js as the server cannot differentiate between a normal
request and a download request when it comes to css or js.
Say you have a CSS or js included in your webpage any html page .This css file will need to be downloaded by the browser.So at server side(IIS) you cannot differentiate a normal download request or browser request. You can deny the download request if the referrer is not matching.For example if someone take sthe URL and directly copying and pasting it in another browser,the referrer header will not be present.Similarly if someone else hotlink to your resources(css,js files),you can stop that too.
By deny download based on Referrer using URLRewrite

Secure HTTPS not working in Magento under CloudFlare

Here is my problem:
I have set magento to run under SSL setting the frontend secure option on admin to Yes
The site run under cloudflare
I set a page rule on cloudflare (according to the support instruction) that goes:
http://fabshopper.com/*
Always uses HTTPS
I'm using ultimo theme in magento
When I open the site in the browser it shows the HTTPS connection but most of the content is not load because the links are HTTP (including CSS, Script, images).
Ultimo theme is supposed to create link either HTTP or HTTPS according to the magento settings, but the link I'm getting are HTTP
I ran out off ideas :(
Can anyone give me an hint?
Thanks
I go through link provided by you and found many URLs loaded from insecure server. check below few of them:
The page at 'https://www.fabshopper.com/' was loaded over HTTPS, but displayed insecure content from 'http://www.fabshopper.com/skin/frontend/ultimo/fabshopper/images/fab_shopper.png': this content should also be loaded over HTTPS.
The page at 'https://www.fabshopper.com/' was loaded over HTTPS, but displayed insecure content from 'http://www.fabshopper.com/media/wysiwyg/autumn-cardigans.png': this content should also be loaded over HTTPS.
Just change the HTTP to HTTPS of all insecure urls and it will solve your problem.

Gzip in apache-tomcat

I want to enable gzip for compression and I have tried many blocks of code. Unfortunately, nothing works. The server that my host is using is apache-tomcat. Do they use different code for enabling gzip or deflate? I only have access to .htaccess. Can someone please post the proper code for enabling gzip (or deflate) on apache-tomcat?
There is no .htaccess in Tomcat. This file belongs to the Apache Web Server. GZIP compression can be enabled in the HTTP connector. Your question is for serverfault and not stackoverflow.

IIS doDynamicCompression and Browser Fallback

I want to enable GZip compression on my controller actions using IIS's doDynamicCompression configuration option.
The question is what will happen if one of my users uses a browsers that doesnt support GZip - would IIS detect it and send it uncompressed?
When your users send request to the serveur, the Browser send a header Accept-Encoding.
This header specifies to the server with compresssions methods are accepted by the Browser.
For exemple "deflate,gzip", "gzip" or nothing.
IIS parses this Header to compress or not the response.

How do I cache control?

How do I get my website to save images to clients computer and use them, not redownload them every page reload?
I tried to send header("Cache-Control: max-age=3600"); but that had no effect.
You'll need to sand caching headers for the image files, not for your HTML document. You can use the header function only if the files are actually served by a PHP script - not if they are static files handled by the web server. If they are static files, check the documentation for your web server of choice.
Also consider sending en Expires header, and disable ETags.

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