plain text in Accept-Encoding HTTP Header

http plaintext http-accept-encoding
astralmaster picture astralmaster · Sep 9, 2013 · Viewed 15.1k times · Source

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 ?

Answer

HttpWatchSupport picture HttpWatchSupport · Sep 9, 2013

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.

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