s2member-o.php and gzip

As suggested, I added the mod_rewrite rule (…RewriteRule .* – [E=no-gzip:1]) to our /.htaccess file.

However, our score from webpagetest.org went from an “A” to a “C” because …/s2member-o.php was not being gzipped (This added 75K to our site – a noticable difference)

I commented out the .htaccess addition for now.

My question –

Is there a way to write the mod_rewrite rul so that it does not affect .gzip during normal browsing and then only comes into play when downloads are being served?

Thanks

Thank you for your inquiry.

I’m sorry for the delay in response.

Is there a way to write the mod_rewrite rul so that it does not affect .gzip during normal browsing and then only comes into play when downloads are being served?

I’m assuming that you’re talking about s2Member’s Download Option files located in the /s2member-files/ directory only, right? If that’s the case, you should be able to just add this rule into the .htaccess file located in that directory.