http.rst
author Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>
Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:40:30 +0200
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Encoding HTTP data.

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* Web server in Cygwin.

  $ setup -p apache2,lighttpd,dhttp

* Encoding HTTP data.

Starting with HTTP/1.1, web clients can indicate support for compression:

  Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate

Web server notifies the web client of this via the Content-Encoding header in the response:

  Content-Encoding: gzip