Sending gzipped data in WebRequest?

Question

I have a large amount of data (~100k) that my C# app is sending to my Apache server with mod_gzip installed. I\'m attempting to gzip the data first using System.IO.Compressi

Answer 1

Regarding your question whether Content-Encoding is applicable to client-supplied headers - according to HTTP/1.1 standard, it is:

(from section 7)

Request and Response messages MAY transfer an entity if not otherwise restricted by the request method or response status code.

(from section 7.1)

   entity-header  = Allow                    ; Section 14.7
                  | Content-Encoding         ; Section 14.11
                  | Content-Language         ; Section 14.12
                  | Content-Length           ; Section 14.13
                  | Content-Location         ; Section 14.14
                  | Content-MD5              ; Section 14.15
                  | Content-Range            ; Section 14.16
                  | Content-Type             ; Section 14.17
                  | Expires                  ; Section 14.21
                  | Last-Modified            ; Section 14.29
                  | extension-header