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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.
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.