Re: Implementation Experience Content Encoding
Patrick McManus (mcmanus@AppliedTheory.com)
Fri, 1 Aug 1997 14:19:20 -0400 (EDT)
In a previous episode Patrick McManus said...
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:: I've reached a point of frustration with content encoding..
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:: consider an http/1.1 server that receives this request
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:: HEAD /m013/compressfly.cgi?file=idhm&style=gzip HTTP/1.0
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^^^ That's obviously GET.. sorry bout the cut'n'paste job.
-P
:: and generates this response
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:: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
:: Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 17:46:27 GMT
:: Server: ATCm005/1.0d
:: Content-Encoding: gzip
:: Connection: close
:: Content-Type: text/plain
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:: << whole bunch of gzip encoded plain text here>>
:: <close of connection>
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