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Avoid gzipping RSS feed unless requested

See original GitHub issue

Browsers should send Accept-Encoding: gzip in which case it’s okay to gzip, but there’s at least one RSS reader that chokes on gzipped XML: https://twitter.com/xarph/status/1486955535110848515

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Created 2 years ago
Comments:7 (3 by maintainers)

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mollycommented, May 17, 2022

Not really—feel free to take a stab at it! I think it’s a next.js thing.

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dzmitry-kankalovichcommented, Feb 4, 2022

Hit the same problem and was breaking my head over it.

The RSS endpoint breaks protocol by sending gzip unconditionally

Simple test:

# this works
curl https://web3isgoinggreat.com/feed.xml --compressed

# this timeouts
curl https://web3isgoinggreat.com/feed.xml

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