Can I use
page says that Chrome supports brotli for some time now. I would think that the Accept-Encoding
string would be like this:
Accept-Encoding:gzip, deflate, sdch, br
But I checked on a request to StackOverflow e.g. and it does not contain brotli
:
Accept-Encoding:gzip, deflate, sdch
I suppose most web servers won't really return you brotli
if it's not in Accept-Encoding
, so it's kind of partially supported only it seems.
Is it going to be added later or there is some trick I don't know of?
There are many blog posts about this if you Google it. Here's one:
https://samsaffron.com/archive/2016/06/15/the-current-state-of-brotli-compression
Brotli is HTTPS only
If you visit a site over HTTP your browser will not accept the br encoding. The reasoning for this is documented at the end of the chromium issue.
The Chromium issue linked is here:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=452335
Make sure you are going to https://stackoverflow.com instead of http://stackoverflow.com
EDIT: StackOverflow can no longer be accessed on non HTTPS connection.