Why does Safari not accept GZIP compression?

Question

I have a pretty big JavaScript file here which I want to embed into my website. The HTTP server is smart enough to GZIP the file before delivering it to the browser.

Answer 1

The HTTP headers sent to Safari say it's compressed (It has the Content-Encoding: gzip header, and it says the Content-Length is 119406 bytes) - I'd trust those more than the bold number saying 430.61 in Web Inspector. How it determines both those numbers in the top column, , I don't know.

You can get verification on how many bytes is going over the wire if you sniff the HTTP request with wireshark.