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Edge and Bing Search - zsdch encoding: Why is it being used?
Seems Edge has been including zsdch in the accept-encoding header (from searching, as far back as 112). Couldn't find any documentation on this encoding type, only sdch which is considered defunct. W...
- MS have now released a doc to support this on 7th August
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/learnmore-zsdch-compression
The issue was edge was using zsdch and you were unable to turn off if. MS released an edge version allowing a flag to disable zsdch encoding, then in later versions this flag has been removed, edge defaults to advertising ZSDCH, but will only use it if it is supported e2e. The document was published after MS introduced ZSDCH in previous version of edge.
Thanks so much. I understand.