jira-importer commented on issue #446:
URL: https://github.com/apache/maven-indexer/issues/446#issuecomment-2965141491

   **[Jesse N. 
Glick](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=jglick)** 
commented
   
   Some experimentation reveals that httpd 2.2.9 will set this header if 
`AddEncoding x-gzip .gz` is specified in `httpd.conf`. That directive is not 
enabled by default, but it is suggested in a commented-out block:
   
   ```
   1. AddEncoding allows you to have certain browsers uncompress
   1. information on the fly. Note: Not all browsers support this.
       #
       #AddEncoding x-compress .Z
       #AddEncoding x-gzip .gz .tgz
   ```
   
   There is no indication in these comments (or the manual) that using the 
directive violates any RFC, and it seems likely enough that some admin or 
another would have uncommented such a directive at some point for some reason, 
without having any clue this might affect Maven indices. The Indexer would do 
well to behave gracefully in this case.
   
   Workaround (without full server admin access) seems to be to create 
`.index/.htaccess` with
   
   ```
   RemoveEncoding .gz
   ```
   
   


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