support for gzip/deflate compression of fetched metadata

[Chad La Joie]

On Aug 21, 2011, at 3:28 PM, Tom Scavo wrote:

> That was going to be my next question. So, IdP 2.2 (and later)
> supports HTTP conditional GET (ETag and Last-Modified in the response,
> and If-None-Match in the request) as well as HTTP compression
> (Accept-Encoding in the request and Content-Encoding in the response).
> Is that correct?

Yes.

> In the request, what exactly is the value of the Accept-Encoding header?

gzip and deflate