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I'm writing a HTTP client which doesn't have any encoding algorithms built into it yet. Therefore, I was wondering if there is a value for Accept-Encoding header to indicate this? like: "none" for example, or "text/plain" or similar ?

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    Note that the correct syntax is: `Accept-Encoding: identity` (and not "none"). However, many servers don't understand the identity properly... – Alexis Wilke Dec 11 '13 at 06:09

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You can just omit the Accept-Encoding header if you don't support compression:

http://www.httpwatch.com/httpgallery/compression/

However, this will not prevent some servers sending you chunked encoded responses:

http://www.httpwatch.com/httpgallery/chunked/

on persistent "keep-alive" HTTP connections. You can disable persistent connections by adding a "Connection: close" request header and the server will simply close the connection after all the content has been returned in the response message.

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