content-encoding

problem

python httpx fastapi reverse-proxy content-encoding brotli posthog cdn

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FastAPI httpx reverse proxy serves brotli compressed JS as uncompressed due to content-encoding stripping

A FastAPI reverse proxy built on httpx served corrupted JavaScript to browsers: 'SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token' at line 1 of the proxied script (PostHog surveys.js/web-vitals.js). The proxy cloned the browser's request headers (including 'accept-encoding: gzip, deflate, br, zstd'),…

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