support for gzip/deflate compression of fetched metadata

[Tom Scavo]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:
> On 8/21/11 11:58 AM, "Tom Scavo" <trscavo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>This is just a reality check. From the documentation, it appears both
>>IdP 2.2 (and later) and SP 2.4 (and later) support gzip/deflate
>>compression of fetched metadata. Is this correct?
>
> The SP supports it in 2.4 and later, provided libcurl is built with zlib
> support.

Okay, so SP 2.4 (and later) supports HTTP compression. What exactly is
the value of the Accept-Encoding header?

Does the SP support conditional GET? (I can't find this the answer to
this question in the documentation.)

Thanks,
Tom