Apache - How to disable gzip content encoding (eg DEFLATE) for one set of URLs?

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Published on 2010-02-02T17:02:14Z Indexed on 2012/03/29 5:31 UTC
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I have a ubuntu apache webserver and I have enabled mod_deflate to gzip all the content. However there's one folder I'd like to disable the mod_deflate for. I was going to do something like this:

<Location /myfolder>
   RemoveOutputFilter DEFLATE
</Location>

But that doesn't work.

Rational: I am trying to debug an XMLRPC server and I am using wireshark to see what gets past in the HTTP requests, since the replies are gzipped, I can't see what's going on.

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