I went down a bit of a rabbit hole this week, and I figured I’d share so hopefully no one else has to dive quite this deep. Modern web browsers generally prefer to fetch compressed content from web servers; they’ll pass an Accept-Encoding header as part of the HTTP request listing which compression types they support, and then the server will attempt to return content compressed in a form that the client supports. Most web servers have the ability to compress web content on the fly, but t...
