Resolved Weird characters

[jbrouwer 5]

Hi,

Sometimes visitors of my websiteget a screen full of weird characters, see screenshot.

What could this be?

Thanks.

[Simon 248]

Yu have advanced disk caching, which i assume gzips the page too, but the server isnt serving the gzipped copy properly OR is already serving gzipped pages using DEFLATE so its gzipped twice. Browsers like IE dont like that. Talk to your host.

[jbrouwer 5]

Thanks. I will contact them.

[Simon 248]

The topic was marked as resolved.

[jbrouwer 5]

This is what my host had to say:

We are using eAccelerator on our cloudhosting servers for caching, but there pages are not gziped:

[[email protected] ~]$ curl -I -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate' http://pepperbase.com

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently

Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:00:57 GMT

Server: LiteSpeed

Connection: close

Set-Cookie: wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check; path=/; domain=www.pepperbase.com

Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=ecc0bf0d564beb88e78e6ff702e78d4c; path=/

Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT

Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0

Pragma: no-cache

X-Pingback: http://www.pepperbase.com/xmlrpc.php'>http://www.pepperbase.com/xmlrpc.php

Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

X-Powered-By: W3 Total Cache/0.9.2.4

Location: http://www.pepperbase.com/

Vary: User-Agent

[[email protected] ~]$

Please contact theme developers again and provide them information above.

I am a little bit lost here. What can be concluded from this this?

Thanks for your help!

[Simon 248]

Well, what did you ask them? I mean i could have provided you that info lol. Why not turn off gzip compression and see if that solves it.

[jbrouwer 5]

Same info as I started this topic with.

I've turned of the minify option in W3 total cache, too see if that is causing it. Could that be it as well?

As it is not happening all the time, testing is little bit difficult.However, it seems that it resolved the issue. Is there a specific known issue with minifying? Would prefer to enabled it again for obvious reasons. Or should I enable minify and disable gzip compression in W3TC?

[Simon 248]

Its got nothing to do with minify. W3 is caching the page into a whatever.html then gzipping it to send to the browser whatever.html.gz If your webserver is set to auto gzip text files it might be zipping twice.

So just disable the gzip option.

[jbrouwer 5]

Ok, thank you for the explanation. I will give it go. As can be seen above, my host told me the pages are not gzipped by them: "We are using eAccelerator on our cloudhosting servers for caching, but there pages are not gziped:".

[Simon 248]

I'll mark this as resolved, again