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by afiori 2187 days ago
That is a possible source of error, still there is the issue of network devices that implement ossified versions of internet standards. For example when they tried to use different kinds of compression in unencrypted HTTP it came out that a lot of middleboxes would simply "fix" the content-encoding header to be either gzip or deflate, regardless of that making it illegible.