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    net/http: don't send implicit gzip Accept-Encoding on Range requests · 42c31307
    Brad Fitzpatrick authored
    The http package by default adds "Accept-Encoding: gzip" to outgoing
    requests, unless it's a bad idea, or the user requested otherwise.
    Only when the http package adds its own implicit Accept-Encoding header
    does the http package also transparently un-gzip the response.
    
    If the user requested part of a document (e.g. bytes 40 to 50), it appears
    that Github/Varnish send:
            range(gzip(content), 40, 50)
    
    And not:
            gzip(range(content, 40, 50))
    
    The RFC 2616 set of replacements (with the purpose of
    clarifying ambiguities since 1999) has an RFC about Range
    requests (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7233) but does not
    mention the interaction with encodings.
    
    Regardless of whether range(gzip(content)) or gzip(range(content)) is
    correct, this change prevents the Go package from asking for gzip
    in requests if we're also asking for Range, avoiding the issue.
    If the user cared, they can do it themselves. But Go transparently
    un-gzipping a fragment of gzip is never useful.
    
    Fixes #8923
    
    LGTM=adg
    R=adg
    CC=golang-codereviews
    https://golang.org/cl/155420044
    42c31307
response_test.go 15 KB