On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 08:09:07PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Oh? Wouldn't the server simply not compress the data?

Presumably. I meant "fail" as in it would fail to compress the data, which
I suppose is a pretty benign failure mode in most cases.

> I vaguely recall that some servers will send gzip data even with
> "Accept-Encoding: deflate", and they might label it as
> "Content-Encoding: deflate" despite the gzip data.

That's what was reported here recently, but such servers are so severely
broken I doubt it's worth supporting them. But then, sending deflate data
without the header is just about as broken.

>>> Dan
Received on 2005-12-15