gzipped images in SIAP 1.0 (fwd)

[Steve Allen]

On Thu 2007-05-31T12:57:50 -0600, Doug Tody hath writ:
> So should we discourage use of compression unless the HTTP client says
> it can handle it with an Accept-Encododing header?

RFC 2616 section 14.3 indicates that a server MAY use any
content-coding if the client did not specify Accept-Encoding,
but that it SHOULD use "identity" if that is available.

I think that is congruent with Doug's statement.

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