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Bonus point for clients that don't support the HTTP “Accept-Encoding” header [1] and consume all your bandwidth.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ac...



Seems like a reasonable case for disregarding the client preference. If you're able to speak TLS then you're able to load up a public domain (de)compression library.




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