Android Z-Push

For weeks I had the intention to use my Android phone with Zarafa and Z-Push. However, my phone always reported that protocol version provided by the server would not be supported. I had a day off today and dug into the code (first Z-Push, then CyanogenMod 10) to track down the problem. It seemed like there would be a problem with the OPTIONS request in ActiveSync and the headers sent by Z-Push. I ended up using Fiddler to inspect the HTTPS traffic, in particular the headers and it turned out that Z-Push did not send the headers to identify the ActiveSync protocol. But the PHP-code (already messed with debugging output of my own) did send the headers.

Surprisingly, a minimal PHP script that did nothing by sending headers also worked. After a while it seems like the PHP output buffering (ob_start) dropped the headers, but then ob_clean or _flush at before and/or after the header call didn’t change anything.

Staring at the Fiddler traffic of the working testing code brought the saving idea: I had mod_pagespeed enabled (which I noticed, because it also added a header of its own). Turning it off made everything work!

Conclusion: Z-Push is incompatible with mod_pagespeed!