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Content-Encoding Header

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The HTTP Content-Encoding representation header lists the encodings and the order in which they have been applied to a resource1. This lets the recipient know how to decode the data in order to obtain the original content format described in the Content-Type header. Content encoding is mainly used to compress content without losing information about the original media type.

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  1. MDN. “Content-Encoding”. Available at: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Headers/Content-Encoding. (Accessed: [2025-05-11 Sun 07:58]). ↩︎

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