On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Olaf van der Spek wrote:

>> Historically you may be right, but in current HTTP it is a request for the
>> server to compress the content it delivers.
>
> How's that? Debian Lighttpd for example has compress.filetype =
> ("text/plain", "text/html", "application/x-javascript", "text/css") So it
> won't compress a file just because you send a accept encoding header.

I meant that "request" as in a desire, a wish.

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