Last modified: 2014-02-12 23:35:35 UTC
The request on my fresh installed wiki: $curl --compressed --dump-header headers "http://modulewiki.wikimedia.org.uk/w/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=vector" &>/dev/null; cat headers | grep Content-Encoding $ The same request on Wikipedia: $curl --compressed --dump-header headers "http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=jquery%2Cmediawiki&only=scripts&skin=vector" &>/dev/null; cat headers | grep Content-Encoding Content-Encoding: gzip $ gzip compression does not work on load.php for me with a recent (1.20.2) Mediawiki. It seems to work on Wikipedia, but no clue how the WMF does that. IMO this should work per default. $wgDisableOutputCompression is unset (so "false"). Other pages are correctly compressed. Only content delivered with load.php is not compressed.
I can't reproduce this.
@Krinkle Have deployed two new MW releases since this bug report, let me test it again with a fresh install... Or, this is already what you have done?