bugtraq - blocking gzip encoded files

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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 15:38:39 -0700
From: Darwin Mecham <darwin@...sp.com>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: blocking gzip encoded files

It has recently come to my attention that most browsers happily
do Accept-encoding: gzip and streaming decompression of
HTML data received with Content-encoding: gzip
 without asking.

This has been in use since sometime in 1998.

Is there a way to configure the run-of-the-mill browser to
block these at the host level ?

Darwin