I've included an audio and video player (html5 with flash fallback) which works in all browsers except IE.
While looking for the problem I found that the server sends "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" and "Connection:close" headers (and no Content-Length), but only in IE and only for some files (including .swf, .mp3 and .mp4).
I have added the following to .htaccess to disable gzip for those files:
<IfModule mod_env.c>
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI "\.(?:mp3|mp4)$" no-gzip dont-vary
</IfModule>
I have no experience with apache configurations and no idea why a different http version should be used for some requests.
Here are the send headers:
GET /test.mp3 HTTP/1.1
Accept */*
User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0)
Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate
Host ------
Connection Keep-Alive
and the response headers:
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date Wed, 13 Jun 2012 07:38:17 GMT
Server Apache/2.2.22 (Unix) mod_fcgid/2.3.6 mod_ssl/2.2.22 OpenSSL/0.9.8g
Last-Modified Mon, 04 Jun 2012 13:15:25 GMT
ETag "1bc12b-596969-4c1a553b51540"
Accept-Ranges bytes
Connection close
Content-Type audio/mpeg
UPDATE: I just found out that the initial page request (PHP, text/html) response is also HTTP/1.0 but not all subsequent ajax requests.