From 1471d74535caa1bd81fd7fdf2493b327c2cfad1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Thomson Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 15:51:38 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Faffing around with intermediation language. Closes #404. --- draft-ietf-httpbis-http2.xml | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2.xml b/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2.xml index 328f038d..4b3dfd7f 100755 --- a/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2.xml +++ b/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2.xml @@ -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. + + This effectively changes the implicit value of the Accept-Encoding header field () 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". +