- From: Scott Lawrence <lawrence@agranat.com>
- Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 15:33:15 -0400
- To: mcmanus@appliedtheory.com
- Cc: Scott Lawrence <lawrence@agranat.com>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
>>>>> "PM" == Patrick McManus <mcmanus@appliedtheory.com> writes: PM> That's nice for you, but my content has a type of text/plain so I want PM> to label it like that. 14.3 of the current draft tells me PM> If no Accept-Encoding field is present in a request, the PM> server MAY assume that the client will accept any content PM> coding.... PM> and I don't have an identity version of my resource hanging PM> around.. (I deleted it because in this bizarre case disk space is PM> mighty precious) so I sent back gzip and all hell broke loose on a PM> couple mighty popular windows browsers. PM> So am I doing something wrong, or is the spec misleading with its PM> note? The spec says you MAY assume that the client will accept any encoding; it doesn't promise that will work, or place any requirement on clients to do anything about it. If I were you I'd add gunzip-on-the-fly to my server so that you can send real text/plain. -- Scott Lawrence EmWeb Embedded Server <lawrence@agranat.com> Agranat Systems, Inc. Engineering http://www.agranat.com/
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