can be used by user agents to indicate what response content-codings are acceptable in the response.
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can be used by user agents to indicate what response content-codings are acceptable in the response.
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Accept-Encoding: gzip, br
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can be used by user agents to indicate what response content-codings are acceptable in the response.
It is classified as a request header and can appear in requests or responses depending on context.
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Updated 2026-09-13
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