On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > As of right now, we have no plans to add 'deflate' support. I'm > not aware of any browsers/client that support 'deflate' rather > than 'gzip.' > > My guess is that the encapsulation format is slightly different > than with gzip, but I really haven't sat down to look at the > relevant RFCs. It might be easy, but it might be hard.
MSIE, Mozilla and Opera do not understand RFC 1950 'deflate' method, i.e. they want RFC 1951 only deflated stream without any zlib header and Adler32 checksum trailer. Igor Sysoev http://sysoev.ru/en/
