On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Daniel Barron wrote:
> I'm writing a filtering web proxy (see sig) and I'm having trouble with
> 'Content-Encoding: deflate' compressed data. I need to decompress it to
> check the content.
>
> When it says 'Content-Encoding: gzip', I can just read from the socket as
> if I were reading a gzip file from the filesystem and pass it through the
> gzip decompression included in zlib.
> [snip]
It seems to me that an easier solution might be to have your proxy
send an "Accept-Encoding" HTTP header to the server in order to disallow
compressed data...
-- fritz
