On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:23:26AM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Similarly, how much control do we have to ensure that the test HTTPD
> server (1) supports gzip and (2) does not support encoding algos
> with confusing names e.g. "funnygzipalgo" that may accidentally
> match that pattern?

I feel it's quite likely indeed that pretty much any Apache instance is
going to have the gzip encoding.  Every distributor I know supports it.

As for whether there are confusing alternate algorithms, I think it's
best to just look at the IANA registration[0] to see what people are
using.  Potential matches include gzip, x-gzip (a deprecated alias that
versions of Apache we can use are not likely to support), and
pack200-gzip (a format for Java archives, which we hope the remote side
will not be sending).

Overall, I think this is not likely to be a problem, but if necessary in
the future, we can add a prerequisite that looks in the module directory
for the appropriate module.  We haven't seen an issue with it yet,
though, TTBOMK.

[0] 
https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-parameters/http-parameters.xml#content-coding
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