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This page is for anyone who has been tempted to add files (e.g. js, css) into JIRA's atlassian-jira/ directory. It may come as a surprise, but JIRA suffers from the most basic of bugs: it doesn't serve static files correctly. More specifically, if Tomcat serves the file with gzip compression, the Content-Length: header is incorrectly set.

 

Let's pick on jira.jboss.org for our demo, but you can use any public, non-Cloud JIRA instance fronted by Apache (not nginx, which seems to mask the problem). Try hitting https://jira.jboss.org/robots.txt. This loads, but hangs for 20 seconds.

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