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RE: [Jersey] Support for Content-Encoding, Acccept-Encoding "gzip" filters

From: Tatu Saloranta <cowtowncoder_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 16:57:31 -0700 (PDT)

--- On Fri, 9/5/08, Markus KARG <markus.karg_at_gmx.net> wrote:

> From: Markus KARG <markus.karg_at_gmx.net>
> Subject: RE: [Jersey] Support for Content-Encoding, Acccept-Encoding "gzip" filters
> To: users_at_jersey.dev.java.net
> Date: Friday, September 5, 2008, 11:31 AM
> > But I also think that client should have the option of disabling
> > automatic uncompression, since there are cases where compressed form is
> > more useful for the client.
>
> I do not agree. If the client application is interested in getting a
> compressed content instead of a plain one, then it should
> point out this interest by using an "Accept-Encoding: compress,
> gzip" header -- AFAIK that is the sense behind "Accept-Encoding". But
> "Transfer-Encoding" (and this is
> what I talked about solely, in contrast to Paul's

Ah ok. I missed this crucial point then. If so, I agree.

Thank you for correction,

-+ Tatu +-