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With the latest Red Hat 5 updates, OpenSSL (now based on version 0.9.8e) is built with an environment variable hook that disables compression without a rebuild. The variable is called OPENSSL_NO_DEFAULT_ZLIB and should be set to "1" to disable compression. It can be exported from /etc/sysconfig/httpd to control Apache's SSL handling and work around this bug.

For other Red Hat variants or if a rebuild is needed for some other reason, see below.

The procedure is probably similar across Red Hat and CentOS variants, but I've only tried with CentOS 5.

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