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Comment by Animats | Hacker News Reader

Amusingly, "news.ycombinator.com" serves its pages with .gz compression. Even if you send an HTTP header that demands plain text only.

    $ ncat -C --ssl news.ycombinator.com 443 <<EOF
    GET / HTTP/1.1
    host: news.ycombinator.com
    
    EOF

Works for me, no compression. Maybe you messed something up or maybe there's a non-compliant proxy between you and the rest of the internet?

What if you put in:

  accept-encoding: identity

Uncompressed still.