[squid-users] squid 4.0.17 accept-encoding.. sending gzip?!

[Amos Jeffries]

On 2016-12-27 13:07, Alex Rousskov wrote:
> On December 26, 2016 10:11:55 AM Heiler Bemerguy wrote:
> 
>> *Accept-Encoding: none*
> 
>> *Content-Encoding: gzip*
> 
> These are end-to-end headers. Squid does not modify or add them
> (unless you tell it to do that).
> 
> The origin server does not honor the bogus "none" content coding
> requested by the client.
> 

More importantly there is no Vary header. The origin server is claiming 
to produce *only* the one response object. That happens to be in gzip 
encoded format.

Since there are no other variants, the client Accept-* headers do not 
matter. Simple as that.

Amos