While this issue is specific to lighttp but I was hoping someone here has got it working with this module.

Whenever the browser requests a js file (Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate) the Response Header is always application/javascript and it does not send the gzipped version of the js file.

Here are the headers:

Response Headers

Expires	Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:23:07 GMT
Cache-Control	max-age=604800
Content-Type	application/javascript
Accept-Ranges	bytes
Etag	"-1714912946"
Last-Modified	Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:14:55 GMT
Date	Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:23:07 GMT
Server	lighttpd/1.4.19

Request Headers

Host	example.com
User-Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 GTB6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Accept	*/*
Accept-Language	en-gb,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding	gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset	ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive	300
Connection	keep-alive
Referer	http://example.com/page1
Cookie	textsize=100; SESS0e7bf5dd352f06928d127c283a5a858c=dpu2d24sgd0lj8jejoj11mq0j2; SESS13a38ce26369ebf1577e7d9e453655c3=d5dfkurss427gd05auqlndv7v7; has_js=1
If-Modified-Since	Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:14:55 GMT
If-None-Match	"-1714912946"
Cache-Control	max-age=0

Does anyone know what I need to modify in order to get lighttp to send the gzip js file?

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andrewsuth commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Ok, I've worked this one out through some study..

In the end, I disabled GZip compression on the module and let Lighttpd do all of the work by adding application/javascript (which allows JS files to be compressed by Lighttpd) in lighttpd.conf:

compress.filetype = ("text/plain", "text/html", "application/javascript", "application/x-javascript", "text/css")