Darwin Mecham <darwin (at) cissp (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote on 02/23/2004 02:38:39 PM:

> It has recently come to my attention that most browsers happily
> do Accept-encoding: gzip and streaming decompression of
> HTML data received with Content-encoding: gzip
> without asking.
>
> This has been in use since sometime in 1998.
>
> Is there a way to configure the run-of-the-mill browser to
> block these at the host level ?

I don't know of a browser setting to enable/disable it. But you can use
something like Proxomitron to do it (http://www.proxomitron.info/). The
gzip setting is one of the "Headers" settings and is called "
Accept-encoding: Allow webpage encoding (out)". Disable this to prevent
gzip encoding from being used. I've done so in the past, and it does
indeed work as advertised.

Proxomitron does *MUCH* more than this, if you are not yet familiar with
it.

-- Mark

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