Re: current HTTP/2 spec prevents gzip of response to "Range" request

* Martin Thomson wrote:
>I think perhaps that you have Transfer-Encoding confused with Content-Encoding.
>
>HTTP/2 does not change the characteristics of the protocol with
>respect to ranges.  We do change Content-Encoding to requirement that
>the client support gzip, but this doesn't affect the case you
>describe.

Section 8.1.3. of the current draft is quite clear that implementations
must not indicate acceptance of or support for transfer encodings using
the `TE` header; it seems clear that `Transfer-Encoding: gzip, chunked`
is not supposed to be used in HTTP/2.0, which is exactly the issue here.
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Received on Monday, 24 March 2014 16:54:02 UTC