Comments on: Flash Preloading Errors? Turn Off gzip.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:23:10 +0000

Glad to help and thanks for the code.

By: goyb

goyb — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:15:40 +0000

I had the same problem with safari and chrome. This is how my .htacces file look slike:

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Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule . - [E=no-gzip:1]

This works. Thanx for this post. Saved me a lot of time!

By: Asa B

Asa B — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:36:12 +0000

Thanks for saving me countless hours of troubleshooting!

-Asa

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:41:31 +0000

I would tell your host that they are serving their files incorrectly. Otherwise, try following Darkoleptik's link from above and see if you can figure it out by adding/editing an .htaccess file.

By: Roosevelt

Roosevelt — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:38:09 +0000

Total n00b here! I have this problem but I am in a hosted enviornment (e.g. i don’t have the ability to turn off gzip). How do I fix this problem. Again total n00b here so if you can be detailed and I’d be forever in your debt!

Thanks in advance!

By: henry

henry — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:59:07 +0000

awesome job figuring out this issue, debugging this on a project of mine was a pain. thanks!

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Flash : Pre-loading Issues « CrossFlight Studio — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:11:13 +0000

[...] was fine however. Now I was really confused. So I did a bit of research…Apparently, I’m not alone. The issue seeming stems from files being served up with GZIP compression before being sent to the [...]

By: Marco

Marco — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:52:54 +0000

Yep, same here – THANK YOU!
(But IE8 still shows the bytes instead of the % – I’m on it…)

By: Darkoleptik

Darkoleptik — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:44:15 +0000

You saved me dude !!!
i also found that you can disable server gzip compression using .htaccess file
http://www.flash-db.com/Board/index.php?topic=19252.0

Thanks bro for giving me clues on this issue ^^

Cheers from France !

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:39:36 +0000

Unfortunately, I’m not an Apache expert. I just asked the client to have their server admins fix it.

Try some searches for mod_deflate and mod_gzip. I think the gist of it is that when you configure one of these compression modules, you can add file types to an exclusion list, or you can specifically tell it what types to include in its compression.

The exclusion list will look something like this:

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If you can’t change it server wide, you can do it in a specific directory with an .htaccess file, but I’m not much more help there either.