Looks like a series of problems I am facing after I transferred my site from one server to another. This morning I am getting the following error the first time I try to login onto my SMF forum:
“Server response could not be decoded using encoding type returned by server.
This is typically caused by a Web Site presenting a content encoding header of one type, and then encoding the data differently.”
I have a clue from here. Basically it says that it is related to a bug in the content compression code.
Based on this concept, I turned off content compression from “Admin > Configuration > Server Settings > Feature Configuration”. I checked off “Enabled Compressed Output” option and it works!
My One Cent 
Thanks! Helped me fix my problem.
Cool, you solved my 18 months problem today. Thanks a lot buddy 🙂
Hi, roadtofifty and Ahmed thanks for sharing that the posting really helped you. I am glad because that is the sole purpose of this site.
Admin > Configuration > Server Settings > Feature Configuration” wherez that ?
You should set
$conf[‘compress_pages’] = false;
in webmail/horde/config/conf.php. This resolved our issue.
Here is the path:
“C:\Inetpub\vhosts\webmail\horde\config\conf.php”
Here is the path:
“C:\Inetpub\vhosts\webmail\horde\config\conf.php”
Thanks!
It helped me as well.
My hosting server has changed the configurations and my site come up with the same error. I turned off “Enabled Compressed Output” and now it work fine. But I do not know how the SMF performance change when turn that function off.
Cheers!
I am not really good with computers, so can some tell me where I go to get to Admin>Configuration??????? I don’t have a clue. I am not sure where I am supposed to enter the path C:\Inetpub\vhosts\webmail\horde\config\conf.php, Please help.
Thanks
How I can get in website returning this information? other computers can logi in i`m not. have vistapls help
This problem occurs if use a Text Editor which supports another Character Encoding which has not been defined in your website’s either language/languagename.php or other page wherever you have defined Character Encoding type. To overcome this problem you just need to write your code that support the character encoding type. eg earlier I was using Dreamweaver, later I used Microsoft Expression Web the problem start occuring. I just replaced the file written in Dreamweaver, the problem was solved..