[tor-bugs] #22233 [Core Tor/Tor]: Reconsider behavior on .z URLs with Accept-Encoding header

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#22233: Reconsider behavior on .z URLs  with Accept-Encoding header
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 Reporter:  nickm                                |          Owner:  Hello71
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:
                                                 |  accepted
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:  Tor:
                                                 |  unspecified
Component:  Core Tor/Tor                         |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  034-triage-20180328,                 |  Actual Points:
  034-removed-20180328                           |
Parent ID:                                       |         Points:
 Reviewer:  teor                                 |        Sponsor:
                                                 |  Sponsor4
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Changes (by Hello71):

 * status:  needs_revision => accepted


Comment:

 There is technically a third option: don't send ".z" and accept that
 clients will get uncompressed content. It's not a great option because
 almost one third of relays are still on 0.3.0 or earlier.

 The second option sounds too hard. It's mostly a theoretical correctness
 issue anyways, so if #28100 is merged, I think this can safely wait until
 2021.

 To that end, I updated my PR, but it doesn't need review until 2020.
 Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a "closed, later" option, so
 hopefully we can just stick this in accepted until then. Unless someone
 else wants to implement the version checking.

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