Re: [Bug-wget] [PATCH 1-3/3] support HTTP compression

[Ángel González]

On 17/12/14 23:51, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> > > +  else
> > >     request_set_header (req, "Accept-Encoding", "identity", rel_none);
> >
> > You should indent lines when they move into else branches.
>
> And why add add "identity" at all in the first place? What good is 
> meant to come out that increased request size?
It was recently added because squid sometimes returning gzip content 
when not providing Accept-Encoding at all. See the mailing list archives.