title: What is the canonical method for an HTTP client to instruct an HTTP server to disable gzip responses?
body: <p>I thought this was a simple google search, but apparently I'm wrong on that.</p>
  
  <p>I've seen that you should supply:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Accept-Encoding: gzip;q=0,deflate;q=0
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  <p>in the request headers. However, the article that suggested it also noted that proxies routinely ignore that header. Also, when I supplied it to nginx, it still compressed the response message body.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://forgetmenotes.blogspot.ca/2009/05/how-to-disable-gzip-compression-in.html">http://forgetmenotes.blogspot.ca/2009/05/how-to-disable-gzip-compression-in.html</a></p>
  
  <p>So, how do I tell a web server to disable compression on the response message body?</p>