Ben,
> On 10 Sep 2018, at 20:36, Ben Coman <
[hidden email]> 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