On Monday 23 February 2004 05:38 pm, Darwin Mecham wrote: > 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 is because most browsers support HTTP-1.1 standard. http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.11 http://www.w3.org/Talks/9608HTTP/ http://www.seoconsultants.com/articles/1000/http-compression.asp > This has been in use since sometime in 1998. IIRC, HTTP 1.1 was endorsed by W3C ~ 1999 > Is there a way to configure the run-of-the-mill browser to > block these at the host level ? You can disable HTTP 1.1 compliance if you wish. > Darwin Regards, Josep -- Josep L. Guallar-Esteve Eastern Radiologists, Inc. Systems and Network Administration http://www.easternrad.com
