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Re:The feature supported in IE6, but not Chrome by colanderman on Thursday August 23, 2012 @09:42AM (#4422268)
Am I thick, or is the real solution to use "Content-encoding: deflate" when the data you're sending is a "deflate" stream, instead of claiming "Content-encoding: gzip" and crossing your fingers?

Honestly, that's like changing the extension of a .rar to .zip and asking why Windows Explorer can't open it but gnome-open can.

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Re:The feature supported in IE6, but not Chrome by thomseddon on Thursday August 23, 2012 @09:54AM (#4422333)
You are quite right, and it would be the correct way to do it with a stream filter, so thanks.

Personally I had never thought to look what the deflate indicated and figured it was similar to sdch, now I know.

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