This one-line patch fixes an RFC 2616 issue (see wget bug #40819 - https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40819) . If Accept-Encoding header is missing, the server may assume *any* type of encoding (seems stupid to me, but the Squid proxy seems to obey that).
What do you think ? Tim
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From: =?UTF-8?q?Tim Rühsen?= <tim.rueh...@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:01:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add 'Accept-Encoding: identity' to request header
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Fixes bug #40819
Reported-by: Noël Köthe <n...@debian.org>
---
src/ChangeLog | 7 +++++++
src/http.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index a40a5a6..fc5570a 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2014-11-11 Tim Ruehsen <tim.rueh...@gmx.de>
+
+ * http.c (gethttp): Always add Accept-Encoding: identity
+
+ Fixes bug #40819
+ Reported-by: Noël Köthe <n...@debian.org>
+
2014-11-10 Tim Ruehsen <tim.rueh...@gmx.de>
* openssl.c: Fix compile-time check for TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2
diff --git a/src/http.c b/src/http.c
index 584f4a8..de96e32 100644
--- a/src/http.c
+++ b/src/http.c
@@ -1801,6 +1801,7 @@ gethttp (struct url *u, struct http_stat *hs, int *dt, struct url *proxy,
rel_value);
SET_USER_AGENT (req);
request_set_header (req, "Accept", "*/*", rel_none);
+ request_set_header (req, "Accept-Encoding", "identity", rel_none);
/* Find the username and password for authentication. */
user = u->user;
--
2.1.3
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