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+/*
+ * ====================================================================
+ *
+ *  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *  contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ *  this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ *  The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ *  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ *  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ *  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ *  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ *  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ *  limitations under the License.
+ * ====================================================================
+ *
+ * This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many
+ * individuals on behalf of the Apache Software Foundation.  For more
+ * information on the Apache Software Foundation, please see
+ * <http://www.apache.org/>.
+ */
+package ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.client.protocol;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.HttpException;
+import ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.HttpRequest;
+import ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.HttpRequestInterceptor;
+import ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.annotation.Immutable;
+import ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib.protocol.HttpContext;
+
+/**
+ * Class responsible for handling Content Encoding requests in HTTP.
+ * <p>
+ * Instances of this class are stateless, therefore they're thread-safe and immutable.
+ *
+ * @see "http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec3.html#sec3.5"
+ *
+ * @since 4.1
+ */
+@Immutable
+public class RequestAcceptEncoding implements HttpRequestInterceptor {
+
+    /**
+     * Adds the header {@code "Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate"} to the request.
+     */
+    public void process(
+            final HttpRequest request,
+            final HttpContext context) throws HttpException, IOException {
+
+        /* Signal support for Accept-Encoding transfer encodings. */
+        request.addHeader("Accept-Encoding", "gzip,deflate");
+    }
+
+}