content-length when using http compression

Question

The client is making a range request 0-1023 to the http server. It prefers gzip compression with Accept-Encoding: gzip;q=1.0, identity; q=0.5, *;q=0 in the request.

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Answer 1

The actual content length depends on the transfer encoding and data: If you use identity, no compression is applied and the content length is 1024; if you use gzip, the actual content length depends on the data that is to be compressed.