Problem with SVG compression

[geraldjim]

Hi everyone,

I have gzip compression working for just about all elements on my site but for some reason SVG files are not getting compressed.

The htaccess file contains the following:

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-php
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-fastphp
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.ms-fontobject
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/opentype font/ttf font/eot font/otf
</IfModule>

The headers of the file match and everything else is getting compressed. Any suggestions?

Gerald

 

[mistwang]

You need to add "image/svg+xml"

to

http://www.litespeedtech.com/docs/webserver/config/tuning#compressibleTypes

 

[geraldjim]

Thanks for the reply and will test this today.

However, the question remains why I am not able to compress these files via the .htaccess file? The reason I am forcing this question is that like many of us that are using hosting services we only have access to the htaccess file and not the server configuration. Therefore it is important for us to be able to compress these files via the htaccess.

Will let you know if the alternative works.

 

[mistwang]

the Apache AddOutputFilterByType directive is not supported by LiteSpeed yet. what should be compressed is configured with LSWS native configuration at server level, usually do not need to be changed.

 

[geraldjim]

Thanks for the clarification - much appreciated.

I take your point and my question is the above option the only way to force XML documents to be compressed or is there another alternative. Currently I am exploring all options as I feared my ISP currently needs to review this change as the impact on them is significant as you can appreciate.

If not, may I suggest that for future release that SVG documents by default be compressed.

Thanks for your help.

 

[mistwang]

Yeah, we will add that MIME to the default Compressible Type configuration.

 

[geraldjim]

BTW - my ISP is now waiting for the next release to implement the fix. Will the next version contain this change and when do we expect the next release?