content-encoding

I develop part of an ASP.NET site that uses mostly themes but has a couple of CSS files in the themes folder. These are included in the web.config by another developer like so: <Content Include="App_Themes\SoftOrange\CMSStyles.css" /> <Content Include="App_Themes\SoftOrange\ContentStyles.css" /> On our internal test server (IIS7, Server 2008 R2 Enterprise) the global IIS manager options for static and dynamic compression are on, for files larger than 2700 bytes. The site-specific static and dynamic compression are also enabled. At some point (probably when CMSStyles.css hit 2700 bytes) some

I am fetching some pages over the Web using Perl's LWP::UserAgent and would like to be as polite as possible. By default, LWP::UserAgent does not seamlessly handle compressed content via gzip. Is there an easy way to make it do so, to save everyone some bandwidth? LWP has this capability built in, thanks to HTTP::Message . But it's a bit hidden. First make sure you have Compress::Zlib installed so you can handle gzip . HTTP::Message::decodable() will output a list of allowed encodings based on the modules you have installed; in scalar context, this output takes the form a comma-delineated

What is the current state of affairs when it comes to whether to do Transfer-Encoding: gzip or a Content-Encoding: gzip when I want to allow clients with e.g. limited bandwidth to signal their willingness to accept a compressed response and the server have the final say whether or not to compress . The latter is what e.g. Apache's mod_deflate and IIS do, if you let it take care of compression. Depending on the size of the content to be compressed, it will do the additional Transfer-Encoding: chunked . It will also include a Vary: Accept-Encoding , which already hints at the problem. Content

I've a HTTP communication to a webserver requesting JSON data. I'd like compress this data stream with Content-Encoding: gzip . Is there a way I can set Accept-Encoding: gzip in my HttpClient? The search for gzip in the Android References doesn't show up anything related to HTTP, as you can see here . You should use http headers to indicate a connection can accept gzip encoded data, e.g: HttpUriRequest request = new HttpGet(url); request.addHeader("Accept-Encoding", "gzip"); // ... httpClient.execute(request); Check response for content encoding: InputStream instream = response.getEntity()