Darwin Mecham <darwin@cissp.com> wrote on 02/23/2004 02:38:39 PM: > It has recently come to my attention that most browsers happily > do Accept-encoding: gzip and streaming decompression of > HTML data received with Content-encoding: gzip > without asking. > > This has been in use since sometime in 1998. > > Is there a way to configure the run-of-the-mill browser to > block these at the host level ? I don't know of a browser setting to enable/disable it. But you can use something like Proxomitron to do it (http://www.proxomitron.info/). The gzip setting is one of the "Headers" settings and is called " Accept-encoding: Allow webpage encoding (out)". Disable this to prevent gzip encoding from being used. I've done so in the past, and it does indeed work as advertised. Proxomitron does *MUCH* more than this, if you are not yet familiar with it. -- Mark
