OK, I now see the console message where jQuery refuses to set the
unsafe header, so it looks like this behavior is expected. I am having
trouble finding a good explanation of what is unsafe about it though.
Is it that this header is unsafe when used in combination with some
other header value (say, a particular MIME type or charset)? In other
words, is there no way to change this?
On Jan 26, 2:41 pm, Andrew Hedges <segd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to make an Ajax request, specifically requesting a non-
> gzipped response. Here's how I am going about it:
>
> $.ajax({
> url : 'http://my.valid.url/',
> method : 'get',
> beforeSend : function (xhr) {
> xhr.setRequestHeader('Accept-Encoding', 'identity');
> xhr.setRequestHeader('X-Test', 'foo');
> }
>
> });
>
> Watching the action with LiveHTTPHeaders in Firefox 3, I can see that
> "X-Test: foo" gets set correctly, but I'm still seeing "Accept-
> Encoding: gzip,deflate". Is this expected behavior? If so, is there a
> reason why I can't change the Accept-Encoding value?
>
> Thanks,
> -Andrew
