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If no Accept-Encoding header is sent, koa-compress may compress the response

See original GitHub issue

I found it very confusing when I used curl to hit my endpoint and got a compressed response dumped to my console. It seems like if curl doesn’t send the Accept-Encoding header up it does not decompress the response if it gets a compressed response in return.

Nevertheless, I think a client that does not send Accept-Encoding should not be assumed to support gzip or any other compression scheme - by default they should not get any compressed responses.

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Created 3 years ago
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Comments:9 (9 by maintainers)

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niftylettucecommented, Jul 6, 2020

I merged the wrong PR haha. You had two, #110 and #120, I merged #110 not #120. I reverted #110 and merged #120 and released to npm.

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uhopcommented, Jul 6, 2020

Strange — I modified the test to not use unset()… Are you sure you tested the right thing?

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