Does mod_deflate skip gzip compression for responses smaller than DeflateBufferSize?
Apache HTTP Server's mod_deflate controls gzip output through directives such as DeflateCompressionLevel and DeflateBufferSize , with compression normally enabled per MIME type via AddOutputFilterByType . The configuration goal is to serve gzipped application/octet-stream downloads with a consistent Content-Encoding: gzip header, a type that standard example