Ben, > On 10 Sep 2018, at 20:36, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> wrote: > > Hi Sven, > > I had a sample http request specified to have ```Accept-Encoding: gzip``` > and too a guess the following would work... ```client := ZnClient new accept: > 'gzip' ``` > but it doesn't since ZnClient>>accept: > effectively does ``` 'gzip' asZnMimeType ``` > which expects the string to contain a forward-slash > > However this page seems to indicate no slash is required... > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Accept-Encoding > > If I call ```client request setAccept: 'gzip' ``` > I am able to match what is expected (checked with WireShark) > but I'm not sure the sample I was provided is legit or I'm doing something > wrong > > cheers -ben
You seem to be confusing two different headers, Accept and Accept-Encoding (there are many more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_header_fields#Request_fields). #accept: does indeed take a mime-type as argument, as it should. I think you are looking for #setAcceptEncodingGzip Sven
