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Speaking of finally, I wonder when they're going to add proper support for "Content-Encoding: gzip". Last I checked, people would upload gzipped content and add the Content-Encoding header on top, which is inconvenient and doesn't support browsers that can't handle gzipped responses.



Honest question: which browsers can't handle gzip'd responses?


IE6 has problems with cached Gzip files: basically it forgets they're Gzipped in the cache and then drops the Content-Encoding part of the file. So it loads garbage as far as the JS interpreter is concerned.


I've had issues with gzip and wget, though I don't know if that was just a mis-configured site or something (and wget isn't a browser).


I definitely want this feature as well. But I feel like it won't happen for a while because to make this happen Amazon incurs additional overhead for caching the gzipped version.




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