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More on Symantec and Compression

Hey folks,

Just a quick post -- our friend Chris at Ecube in the UK is working on this challenge as well, and he has provided some great, documented work-arounds for this issue of Web clients with Norton Internet Security installed and compressed content from the Web server... check out his research at http://www.ecube.co.uk/docs/norton.html.

Chris has seen this issue affect compression beyond the NIS + ColdFusion + IIS 6 compression challenge we documented, so please do take a read.

Cheers,
Port80

posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 4:28 PM

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# re: More on Symantec and Compression

FYI, we just received word from a partner and a client that NIS 2006 is now compatible with HTTP decompression on the client/browser side -- make sure that you patch those systems!

We'll let you know more soon...

Best regards,
Port80

3/17/2006 1:59 PM | Chris @ Port80

# re: More on Symantec and Compression

Any additional news on this (NIS 2006 compatability) Chris?

I'm looking at the FAQs (since this issue is still causing problems with our users), and the FAQ, http://www.port80software.com/products/httpzip/faq#question33, doesn't reference what version of NIS.

5/5/2006 2:00 PM | James Skemp

# re: More on Symantec and Compression

Thanks for the comment, James -- if you do run into any trouble in the future, please contact our free support team at www.port80software.com/help.

httpZip is compatible with all versions of NIS running on the client. One comtibility feature was added in httpZip 3.5, the other is actually fixed by a NIS patch (for 2004 and 2006 versions).

Please let us know if you have an issue with patch NIS clients and httpZip -- as this is resolved in our labs via the Symantec fix posted in March/April 2006.

Best regards,
Chris @ Port80

5/5/2006 2:08 PM | Chris @ Port80