What encoding string tells a web server NOT to send gzip content?

Question

This encoding header tells a web server to send gzip content if available.

\'accept-encoding\': \'gzip,deflate,sdch\',

How can I instruct t

Answer 1

Leaving the encoding out of accept-encoding will disallow that encoding (ie gzip).

If you want to explicitly set it as disallowed, you can set a qvalue of 0.

'accept-encoding': 'gzip;q=0,deflate,sdch'

You can read more under accept-encoding in RFC2616, but in short if the server can't find an acceptable encoding among the ones listed (identity being a special case, see the link), it should send a 406 (Not Acceptable) response and not reply to your request with any other encoding.