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		rejment on Aug 23, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The feature supported in IE6, but not Chrome He clearly did not, because if he did he would have noticed that it works. That IE tries to decode anyway is a bug.

DrJokepu on Aug 23, 2012 [–]

As far as I know, the HTTP standard doesn't require browsers to decode content with a decoding mechanism if and only if it has been specified in the Content-Encoding header. I don't think this is a bug.

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