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13 years ago

Accept-Encoding field is removed instead as set to "none"

Hello,

The "Accept compressed responses from hosts" option in soapUI Preferences (HTTP Settings) is behaving in such way that the "Accept-Encoding" field is REMOVED/NOT PRESENT in requests.

This is a bug since when the "Accept-Encoding" field is missing it DOES NOT mean that soapUI would accept only uncompressed responses, on the contrary:
The RFC 2616 (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html) states that "If no Accept-Encoding field is present in a request, the server MAY assume that the client will accept any content coding."

So I would suggest soapUI's Preference option above should instead send an explicit "Accept-Encoding" field with "none" as accepted protocols.

Would you agree and is my issue making sense to you?

Thanks in advance,
Tent:wq
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