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On 31/10/2007, at 5:34 AM, Jeff Day wrote:

Are there any browsers that don't support Deflate?

Not something you have to worry about. A properly configured and implemented HTTP server will only send compressed data when the browser says it can handle it. The browser controls whether compression can be used. It does this by sending an Accept-Encoding HTTP header indicating which compression methods it supports. The server can then choose to use one of those compression methods or can ignore compression entirely.

Early browsers, or those using HTTP/1.0, will not send this header therefore compression should not be performed.

Usual form is:
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate

The HTTP server indicates compression is in effect by sending the Content-Encoding header. This should never be sent unless the browser has already indicated it can accept such encoding.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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