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

Not including the accept-encoding header implies that you may want the default encoding, i.e. identity. The caveat here is that the RFC2616 sec 14.3 allows the server to assume any available encoding is acceptable.

To explicitly request plain text, set 'accept-encoding: identity'