[Zlib-devel] Re: Inflate 1.2.beta0 available for testing

[Mark Adler]

On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 10:40  AM, Paul Marquess wrote:
> In practice I've found that a lot of browsers don't implement that
> correctly - they will only accept RFC1951 content without the enclosing
> RFC1950 envelope - that was true of both IE & Netscape. The only 
> browser I
> could find that implemented it correctly was Opera, and it could handle 
> it
> either way.
>
> Where you aware of this?

Partly.  I knew that most browsers accepted gzip but not zlib content 
encoding.  However I thought that such a browser would include only 
"gzip" in its "Accept-Encoding" header.  What I think you're saying is 
that some browsers include "deflate" in the header, but are actually 
expecting a raw deflate stream instead of a zlib stream!  (This may be 
related to the poor naming of the "deflate" content encoding.  They 
probably should have called it "zlib".)

mark