title: What is a good setting for noCompressionUserAgents in Tomcat?
body: <p>Googling for "noCompressionUserAgents" ends up with the same boilerplate config that seems to have been copied around and yet is not very useful (and even is here on stackoverflow:)</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>stackoverflow.com/questions/550024/tomcat-compression-does-not-add-a-content-encoding-gzip-in-the-header</p>
    
    <p>noCompressionUserAgents="gozilla,
    traviata"</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>But this doesn't take into account skipping NS4 or IE6 or whatever else.  The closest I've found is from a Zimbra config sample, which at least is for skipping IE6 it looks like:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p><a href="http://www.zimbra.com/forums/installation/7654-problems-zimbra-installation-os-x-server-ldap-tomcat.html" rel="noreferrer">http://www.zimbra.com/forums/installation/7654-problems-zimbra-installation-os-x-server-ldap-tomcat.html</a></p>
    
    <p>noCompressionUserAgents=".<em>MSIE 6.</em>"</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Does anybody have a REAL setting for noCompressionUserAgents?  </p>