Title: Content Encoding Error Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Content Encoding Error * Resolved [peteratomic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peteratomic/) * (@peteratomic) * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-encoding-error-15/) * “The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.” * Got that trying to view the sitemap. Have disabled all other plugins but still get that error message. * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 15 total) * [Kramarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kramarz/) * (@kramarz) * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-encoding-error-15/#post-4794676) * ‘Content Encoding Error’ is all I get as well. * Try [http://www.carlowgraphics.com/sitemap.xml](http://www.carlowgraphics.com/sitemap.xml) * Any ideas? * Kind Regards * [Kramarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kramarz/) * (@kramarz) * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-encoding-error-15/#post-4794696) * Need that one fixed. Can we get a reply from developer please? * [Arne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arnee/) * (@arnee) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-encoding-error-15/#post-4794706) * Hi, * are you both using version 4.0.3 of the plugin? 4.0.3 fixed a bug with some other plugins which tried to compress the page. * Thread Starter [peteratomic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peteratomic/) * (@peteratomic) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-encoding-error-15/#post-4794707) * Woohoo! Thanks Arnee! * Making a donation now! * [Kramarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kramarz/) * (@kramarz) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-encoding-error-15/#post-4794712) * Yes, using the latest version available, which is 4.0.3, but still have mentioned here problem. * [Kramarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kramarz/) * (@kramarz) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-encoding-error-15/#post-4794713) * And cause of that am afraid to update the plugin on few more websites it’s on. * [Kramarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kramarz/) * (@kramarz) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-encoding-error-15/#post-4794731) * Updated to 4.0.4, still broken – [http://www.carlowgraphics.com/sitemap.xml](http://www.carlowgraphics.com/sitemap.xml) * [Arne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arnee/) * (@arnee) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-encoding-error-15/#post-4794733) * Hi, * can you try the dev version: [http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/google-sitemap-generator.zip](http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/google-sitemap-generator.zip) * I’ve fixed a bug with the gzip encoding there. * [Kramarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kramarz/) * (@kramarz) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-encoding-error-15/#post-4794734) * Hi Arnee, * Installed that version but still broken 🙁 * [Kramarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kramarz/) * (@kramarz) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-encoding-error-15/#post-4794735) * This is what I see when inspecting [http://www.carlowgraphics.com/sitemap.xml](http://www.carlowgraphics.com/sitemap.xml) page, but only error pops in front end. * ``` http://www.carlowgraphics.com/sitemap-misc.xml 2013-09-04T09:23:23+00:00 http://www.carlowgraphics.com/sitemap-pt-page-2013-04.xml 2013-04-04T11:58:15+00:00 http://www.carlowgraphics.com/sitemap-pt-page-2013-03.xml 2013-03-27T16:31:54+00:00 http://www.carlowgraphics.com/sitemap-pt-page-2013-02.xml 2013-02-07T11:26:22+00:00 http://www.carlowgraphics.com/sitemap-pt-page-2012-12.xml 2013-04-03T10:53:58+00:00 http://www.carlowgraphics.com/sitemap-pt-page-2012-11.xml 2012-11-19T15:23:51+00:00 http://www.carlowgraphics.com/sitemap-pt-page-2012-10.xml 2013-04-05T10:03:03+00:00 http://www.carlowgraphics.com/sitemap-pt-page-2012-08.xml 2013-09-04T09:23:23+00:00 http://www.carlowgraphics.com/sitemap-pt-page-2011-04.xml 2012-08-03T18:53:20+00:00 ``` * [Arne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arnee/) * (@arnee) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-encoding-error-15/#post-4794736) * Hi, * I see what’s the problem. There is a whitespace or new line in front of the output. This is not allowed in a XML document. * For the same reason your RSS feed is broken: [http://www.carlowgraphics.com/feed/](http://www.carlowgraphics.com/feed/) * Please check your theme functions.php and see if there is whitespace before the opening at the end. * As a temporary workaround, you can try this fix: * [http://wejn.org/stuff/wejnswpwhitespacefix.php.html](http://wejn.org/stuff/wejnswpwhitespacefix.php.html) * [Kramarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kramarz/) * (@kramarz) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-encoding-error-15/#post-4794739) * Thanks, the fix worked. * I haven’t found any white space though and the feed still seems to be broken, but at least simemap is there now. * Strange issue. Plus it wasn’t there before the latest major update of your plugin. Hmm… * In this case I can blame the theme I guess, cause it’s #$%@^$ and we will be re-designing this website. * I’m going to try to update your plugin on one other website with much more solid framework, lets see how it will behave there! * Cheers. * [Kramarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kramarz/) * (@kramarz) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-encoding-error-15/#post-4794740) * On a side note, isn’t it a little bit wierd way that the sitemap shows now? [http://www.carlowgraphics.com/sitemap.xml](http://www.carlowgraphics.com/sitemap.xml) * [Kramarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kramarz/) * (@kramarz) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-encoding-error-15/#post-4794741) * I just updated the plugin on other website, no problems there. * [http://www.ballyderrinhouse.ie/sitemap.xml](http://www.ballyderrinhouse.ie/sitemap.xml) * but, if I compare that to [http://www.carlowgraphics.com/sitemap.xml](http://www.carlowgraphics.com/sitemap.xml) * Hmm… Is it that the plugin has simply splited carlowgraphics website sitemap to smaller sitemaps as it’s too heavy to look like on ballyderrinhouse? Or? * Also, is sitemap.xml.gz not to be used anymore? * And last one, noob question, sorry if in wrong place – what’s the purpose of using ‘Include sitemap in HTML format’ option? * [Arne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arnee/) * (@arnee) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-encoding-error-15/#post-4794755) * Hi, * I’ve wrote a small article about the new format here: * [http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpress-plugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator/google-xml-sitemap-generator-new-sitemap-format/](http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpress-plugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator/google-xml-sitemap-generator-new-sitemap-format/) * The sitemap.xml.gz URL still works, but the plugin now detects automatically if the client support compression, so the .gz extension is not required anymore. * The HTML format was a request I have received quite frequently. Basically it creates a HTML sitemap (sitemap.html) which can be read by browsers which do not support the XML standard. 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