plain text in Accept-Encoding HTTP Header

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I'm writing a HTTP client which doesn't have any encoding algorithms built into it yet. Therefore, I was wondering if there is a value for Accept-Encoding header to indicate this? like: "none" for example, or "text/plain" or similar ?

Note that the correct syntax is: Accept-Encoding: identity (and not "none"). However, many servers don't understand the identity properly... — Alexis Wilke
– Alexis Wilke, Commented Dec 11, 2013 at 6:09

HttpWatchSupport · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-09 09:39:30Z

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You can just omit the Accept-Encoding header if you don't support compression:

http://www.httpwatch.com/httpgallery/compression/

However, this will not prevent some servers sending you chunked encoded responses:

http://www.httpwatch.com/httpgallery/chunked/

on persistent "keep-alive" HTTP connections. You can disable persistent connections by adding a "Connection: close" request header and the server will simply close the connection after all the content has been returned in the response message.

answered Sep 9, 2013 at 9:39

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