Java HttpGet doesn't accept gzip

Question

I am making an HttpGet to an url and I do not want the server to send the data gzipped. What header should I include in my HttpGet ?

With the default headers, the server sends gzipped data from time to time. I don't want this to happen. Thanks.

Answer 1

You want the Accept-Encoding HTTP request header.

Update: per @Selvin's comment, leave it empty or set it to "identity".

Update: The web application has to cooperate properly to be HTTP compliant, of course. If it's not honoring Accept-Encoding, look at its Content-Encoding HTTP response header. If it's "gzip", just read the response body with Java's GZIPInputStream.html. Then add "gzip" to your Accept-Encoding request header, since your client now handles GZIP. If the web application doesn't set the Content-Encoding header properly, that's another story altogether.

Answer 2

You should set the Accept-Encoding header to identity.