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Diffstat (limited to 'src/pkg/net/http/transport.go')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/pkg/net/http/transport.go | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/pkg/net/http/transport.go b/src/pkg/net/http/transport.go index 4cd0533ff..41ac7dea1 100644 --- a/src/pkg/net/http/transport.go +++ b/src/pkg/net/http/transport.go @@ -831,10 +831,15 @@ func (pc *persistConn) roundTrip(req *transportRequest) (resp *Response, err err // uncompress the gzip stream if we were the layer that // requested it. requestedGzip := false - if !pc.t.DisableCompression && req.Header.Get("Accept-Encoding") == "" { + if !pc.t.DisableCompression && req.Header.Get("Accept-Encoding") == "" && req.Method != "HEAD" { // Request gzip only, not deflate. Deflate is ambiguous and // not as universally supported anyway. // See: http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib_faq.html#faq38 + // + // Note that we don't request this for HEAD requests, + // due to a bug in nginx: + // http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/358 + // http://golang.org/issue/5522 requestedGzip = true req.extraHeaders().Set("Accept-Encoding", "gzip") } |