| This interface represents the Accept-Encoding request-header.
A client includes an AcceptEncodingHeader in a Request to tell the server
what coding schemes are acceptable in the Response e.g. compress, gzip.
If an AcceptEncodingHeader is present, and if the server cannot send a
Response which is acceptable according to the AcceptEncodingHeader, then
the server should return a Response with a status code of NOT_ACCEPTABLE.
An empty Accept-Encoding header field is permissible, it is equivalent to
Accept-Encoding: identity, meaning no encoding is permissible.
If no Accept-Encoding header field is present, the server SHOULD assume a
default value of identity.
For Example:
Accept-Encoding: gzip
author:
BEA Systems, NIST
version:
1.2 |