[jersey-dev] Question about GZIP encoding and Content-Length

[Boris Petrov <boris_petrov@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I'm not sure how Jersey handles the Content-Length header when a 
response is GZIP-compressed (via GZipEncoder for example). I see in my 
tests that a Content-Length header is (sometimes) sent but it is 
different from the actual body length. I believe that's not OK as the 
two numbers should match. So can someone explain to me two things:

1) why is Content-Length sometimes sent and sometimes not? What does it 
depend on?
2) why is Content-Length different from the actual body length when GZIP 
encoding is used.

Thanks in advance,
Boris