Bugtraq: Re: blocking gzip encoded files

["Josep L. Guallar-Esteve" <guallar () easternrad com>]

On Monday 23 February 2004 05:38 pm, Darwin Mecham wrote:
> It has recently come to my attention that most browsers happily
> do Accept-encoding: gzip and streaming decompression of
> HTML data received with Content-encoding: gzip
>  without asking.
This is because most browsers support HTTP-1.1 standard.

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.11
http://www.w3.org/Talks/9608HTTP/
http://www.seoconsultants.com/articles/1000/http-compression.asp

> This has been in use since sometime in 1998.
IIRC, HTTP 1.1 was endorsed by W3C ~ 1999

> Is there a way to configure the run-of-the-mill browser to
> block these at the host level ?
You can disable HTTP 1.1 compliance if you wish.

> Darwin

Regards,
Josep
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Josep L. Guallar-Esteve         Eastern Radiologists, Inc.
Systems and Network Administration  http://www.easternrad.com