Drew Taylor wrote:
> I have read debates in the past about which browsers will reliably
> accept gzip content. Do you have a list of such browsers? IIRC, it was
> IE that was the most troublesome w/ proper display.

We don't make an explicit blessed browser list, we let the browser
writers tell us what they will handle :).

We just look to see if the browser says Content-encoding: .*gzip.* in
the request headers. If it does we send it compressed. We've had no
complaints and have tested with a wide variety of browsers on our own
systems.

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