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Re: CURLOPT_ENCODING (was: Blocking variant of curl_multi_perform)

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 22:19:24 +0100 (CET)

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

> The header tells the client what encodings it accepts/understands. It's not
> supposed to be a mechanism for the client to tell the server whether it's a
> good idea to compress the content.

Historically you may be right, but in current HTTP it is a request for the
server to compress the content it delivers.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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