Re: h2#404 requiring gzip and/or deflate

On 21 February 2014 15:32, Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz> wrote:

> On 21/02/2014 5:13 p.m., Mark Nottingham wrote:
> >
> > So, what the current text *really* says is that servers can ignore the
> 'identity' content-encoding when it appears alone in the request.
>
> Huh? identiy coding being explicitly sent is a non-empty field.
>
> I read that as saying only an empty header means "anything goes, YMMV",
> and * value meaning "anything goes, honest, I promise"
>

The other current text, in HTTP/2, that says:

| Clients MUST support gzip compression for HTTP request bodies.
| Regardless of the value of the accept-encoding header field, a server
| MAY send responses with gzip or deflate encoding.

IOW "Accept-Encoding: identity" can be ignored, because you can still gzip
the response.

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