I thought this was a simple google search, but apparently I'm wrong on that.
I've seen that you should supply:
Accept-Encoding: gzip;q=0,deflate;q=0
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.
http://forgetmenotes.blogspot.ca/2009/05/how-to-disable-gzip-compression-in.html
So, how do I tell a web server to disable compression on the response message body?
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