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Fixes #497
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In general, applications using HTTP SHOULD align their usage as closely as possible with Web browsers, to avoid interoperability issues when they are used. See {{browser}}.

Applications using HTTP MUST NOT require HTTP features that are usually negotiated to be supported.
For example, requiring that clients support responses with a certain content-encoding
({{?RFC7231}}, Section 3.1.2.2) instead of negotiating for it ({{?RFC7231}}, Section 5.3.4) means
that otherwise conformant clients cannot interoperate with the application. Applications MAY
encourage the implementation of such features, though.


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