Faffing around with intermediation language. Closes #404.

httpwg · Mar 4, 2014 · 1471d74 · 1471d74
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@@ -3227,6 +3227,13 @@ HTTP2-Settings    = token68
           of the accept-encoding header field, a server MAY send responses with gzip encoding.  A
           compressed response MUST still bear an appropriate content-encoding header field.
         </t>
+        <t>
+          This effectively changes the implicit value of the Accept-Encoding header field (<xref
+          target="HTTP-p2" x:fmt="," x:rel="#header.accept-encoding"/>) from "identity" to
+          "identity, gzip".  Intermediaries that perform translation from HTTP/2 to HTTP/1.1 MUST
+          decompress payloads unless the request includes an Accept-Encoding value that includes
+          "gzip".
+        </t>
       </section>
     </section>