How to disable Nginx double gzip encoding when fastcgi backend occasionally serves gzipped with content-encoding?

Question

Is there any clever way to trick nginx to stop gzip if the backend already has set the \"content-encoding\" header?

Nginx is configured to gzip the output from the p

Answer 1

Somewhere in nginx.conf where it applies (there should be a fastcgi_params file somewhere) :

fastcgi_param  HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING      "";

This will disable the encoding from the backend.

I hope that still Nginx will serve encoded content after this. (I am not sure)