On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Daniel Stenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > >>> Historically you may be right, but in current HTTP it is a request for >>> the >>> server to compress the content it delivers. >> >> How's that? Debian Lighttpd for example has compress.filetype = >> ("text/plain", "text/html", "application/x-javascript", "text/css") So it >> won't compress a file just because you send a accept encoding header. > > I meant that "request" as in a desire, a wish.
Well, of course, as in general, the client doesn't know yet whether the content is compressed. ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
