Problem with ESI, gzip, Accept-Encoding-Normalisation and 404-Status

[Søren Thing Andersen]

Hi Michael.
> The 404-Page is served uncompressed (since we unset the accept-encoding) but contains gzipped esi:include blocks
> (now showing binary characters/data in the browser)

I don't think you are doing anything wrong - except perhaps using 
version 2.x?

I had the same issue - it was fixed in 3.0.1: 
https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/ticket/1029#comment:4

/Thing