This is pretending to be IE 6. No Content_Encoding header sent back though.
$ lwp-request -des -H'User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461)' -H'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate' http://www.homedepot.com 200 OK Connection: close Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:16:27 GMT Server: Netscape-Enterprise/4.1 Content-Length: 3733 Content-Type: text/html Client-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:16:05 GMT Client-Response-Num: 1 > -----Original Message----- > From: David Carter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 26 March 2003 10:49 > To: 'Mike Simons'; 'Paul Marquess' > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Net::HTTP does not use compressed transfers when it should > > > Sorry - you'll need to masquerade as Internet Explorer, or some other > browser (& version) "known" by their HTTP accelerator to support > deflate, in > addition to using an "accept-encoding" header. > > I don't have my code on this computer, or I'd send it to you > right now. I'll > try to post a snippet when I get to the office. > > --- > David Carter > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mike Simons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 2:53 AM > > To: David Carter; Paul Marquess > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Net::HTTP does not use compressed transfers when it should > > > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 04:42:15PM -0500, Mike Simons wrote: > > > - Does anyone know of apache support for transfer-encoding? > > > - Does anyone know of linux web applications that use TE:? > > > > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 05:44:21AM -0500, David Carter wrote: > > > > No need to teach mod_gzip deflate for testing - just find a site on > > the > > > > internet that already emits "Content-encoding: deflate" & test with > > it. > > > > Such as http://www.homedepot.com > > > > > > Very good point... thanks for the URL, I'll try that first. ;) > > > > Hrmmm... I'm not seeing data sent back compressed. I've tried lynx, > > my own get.pl test program, and mozilla. I see the mozilla request > > advertise "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress;q=0.9" but the > > results comes back in the clear. > > > > - Could you provide the headers from a sample request that will get > > deflate data out of it? > > - Does anyone else know of a site that sends 'deflate' style replies? > > > > Thanks, > > Mike Simons > > >
