On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Olaf van der Spek wrote:

The header tells the client what encodings it accepts/understands. It's not supposed to be a mechanism for the client to tell the server whether it's a good idea to compress the content.

Historically you may be right, but in current HTTP it is a request for the server to compress the content it delivers.

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