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  1. Ænðr E. Feldstraw @[email protected] ·

    I was sure I wasn't asking for GZipped response bodies. So I looked up the #HTTP RFC once more for the #AcceptEncoding #requestHeader. It lets us set the kinds of encoding we like (compress, deflate, etc.) and also set a quality indicator.

    If set to 0 for an encoding, we tell the remote server not to supply it.

    Yay!

    Or not: the remote REST API server I was addressing responded, saying they didn't like my Accept-Encoding header.

    So… then what?

    #requestheader #acceptencoding #http
  2. Ænðr E. Feldstraw @[email protected] ·

    Yesterday was the first time in years a remote #REST #API server required me to send the #ContentLength #requestHeader. The #HTTP component I was using, #HttpURLConnection by Sun, outright refused to set it.

    I looked up the HTTP RFC: yes, it is called Content-Length, and yes, it's a count of 16-bit characters. And it can be used only if neither streaming nor chunking the contents. My code met those requirements.

    What was going on?

    #httpurlconnection #http #requestheader #contentlength #api #rest