[Bug classpath/46063] New: User-defined Content-Encoding throws exception

[martin.winter at siemens dot com]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46063

           Summary: User-defined Content-Encoding throws exception
           Product: classpath
           Version: 0.98
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: classpath
        AssignedTo: address@hidden
        ReportedBy: address@hidden


I'm working with HttpUrlConnection exchanging data with a user-defined
Content-Encoding. The processing in gnu.java.net.protocol.http.Request:503
however throws a ProtocolException on all unknown Content-Encodings.

The behaviour of the Sun JRE however (and also what I would expect) is to let
the application handle an unknown content encoding.

My proposal:

Replace

505:           throw new ProtocolException("Unsupported Content-Encoding: " +
506:                                        contentCoding);

by

505:           return in;

At least encodings starting with "x-" should be allowed to be handled by the
application.