On Sat, 10 Apr 2010, Simon Lyall wrote:

> Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
>
> I was wondering if the order could be reversed? Since IE and Firefox (at
> least ) send "gzip, deflate" when they request pages and (it appears) the
> defacto standard is for the server to serve up the first match.

It's not a standard and it isn't a defacto one either in my experience. I've
seen countless servers provide a gzip compressed content to such requests.

The relevant HTTP spec explains how to give preference to what method to
select, and the order is not mentioned as a factor. Given two algorithms with
the equal "qvalue", it is up to the server to pick which one to use. The most
specific and detailed way would probably be:

  Accept-Encoding: compress;q=0.5, gzip;q=1.0

Of course you can easily set your own order and header by using -H.

Possibly we should stop having curl sending deflate completely.

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