Forcing Compression

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From: MattC (m_at_m.com)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:56:16 -0000

Hi,

If I add the following line to Application_BeginRequest

Request.Headers.Add("Accept-Encoding", "gzip");

Will this cause the server to utilise IIS6.0 Compression even if the client
is not set to use HTTP 1.1. Does the browser need to know that it sent the
request in HTTP 1.1 in order to decompress or can it determine from the
Response header that it needs to enflate/unzip.

TIA

MattC

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