How to enable deflate content-encoding with Apache2 mod_deflate?

Question

No matter how I test using different value of Accept-Encoding, it always returned as gzip.

curl -I -H  'Accept-Encoding: gzip' http://www.example.com
Content-Encoding: gzip


curl -I -H  'Accept-Encoding: deflate' http://www.example.com
Content-Encoding: gzip

So how to force deflate?

You probably don't want to use deflate. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/388595/why-use-deflate-instead-of-gzip-for-text-files-served-by-apache/9856879#9856879 — sciurus, Mar 30 '12 at 04:14
Do you have mod_deflate enabled and configured? http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.3/mod/mod_deflate.html — Eli Sand, Apr 04 '12 at 00:54

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 02 '12 at 20:21

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You can't. mod_deflate only ever responds with Content-Encoding: gzip.

answered Jun 02 '12 at 20:21

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How to enable deflate content-encoding with Apache2 mod_deflate?

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