IE8 not compressing pages with either Apache or PHP

IE6/7 accepting the compression just fine though.

[JAB Creations]

I've tried a few things tonight to try and force IE to accept the compression. I'm not encountering any of the funky issues others online have posted about...it's simply not compressing the pages regardless of whether I use PHP or Apache. I can clearly see the files are being compressed in all the other browsers as the bandwidth is less then half of what IE is on the test files. It's IE8 that is failing and IE6/7 are compressing the page just fine. Thoughts please?

- John

<?php
ob_start('ob_gzhandler');
header("Content-Encoding: gzip");
?>

[dreamcatcher]

Compression is server related. Not browser. Is the issue with the server?

dc

[JAB Creations]

I actually discovered the issue was that IE is not sending the compression headers to the server thus the server presumed that the browser would not be able to decompress it.

- John