What 'Content-Type' header to use when serving gzipped files?

Question

I\'m serving gzipped copies of my css / javascript files. As per a tutorial, I set the content-type as application/gzip when serving these files. However, chrom

Answer 1

Compressed content in the response is indicated in the Content-Encoding. The Content-Type should remain the same, that is, it should reflect the underlying media type that is compressed.

Content-Type: application/javascript
Content-Encoding: gzip

See sections 14.11 Content-Encoding and 3.5 Content Codings of RFC 2616 for more information.