title: Gzip compressed website not working with IE
body: <p>In my site I have some gzipped copies of the most used and largest files (because my hosting doesn't allow using the gzip compression module).</p>
  
  <p>I have inserted rewrite rules in the htaccess file to send the gzipped copies when available, like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;FilesMatch "\.html\.gz$"&gt;
    ForceType text/html
    Header set Content-Encoding: gzip
  &lt;/FilesMatch&gt;
  
  &lt;FilesMatch "\.js\.gz$"&gt;
    ForceType text/javascript
    Header set Content-Encoding: gzip
  &lt;/FilesMatch&gt;
  
  &lt;FilesMatch "\.css\.gz$"&gt;
    ForceType text/css
    Header set Content-Encoding: gzip
  &lt;/FilesMatch&gt;
  
  RewriteEngine on
  rewritecond %{HTTP:accept-encoding} (gzip.*)
  rewritecond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^.+\.gz$
  rewritecond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.gz -f
  rewriterule ^(.+) $1.gz [L]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This works fine in FF and Chrome, but in IE8 the gzipped content is displayed like text.</p>