ajax post - I want to change the Accept-Encoding header value

Question

I am using jQuery ajax to call my WCF service with an HTTP POST. The response is GZIP encoded, and this causes problems in my environment. (See this question). If the response i

Answer 1

This is not possible because of choosing the right encoding type by browser. If you do this

var ajaxParams = {
accepts: 'text/html',
async: true,
cache: false,
contentType: 'text/html',
url: 'http://www.google.com',
type: 'GET',
beforeSend: function (jqXHR) {
    // set request headers here rather than in the ajax 'headers' object
    jqXHR.setRequestHeader('Accept-Encoding', 'deflate');
},......

You'll see this error:

Refused to set unsafe header "Accept-Encoding"

Ref: App Engine Accept-Encoding