Re: [packaging-on-the-web] Why not use `Content-Encoding`? (#17)

Content-Encoding is a description of the actual content, so decoding it is part of handling to body. Transfer-Encoding means that the body needs to be decoded prior to its handling (like if it was a transient serialization).
Also compressing the whole passage means that you need to decompress everything instead of just skipping until the next boundary and process only what you need.

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