The client will know how to uncompress it. As part of sending the server what type of client it is (user agent) it also sends if it can accept gzip compressed content.
It's basically unpacked on-the-fly by your computer.
I'm confused if the files are gzipped then how do they get uncompressed when getting to the client? What is used to decompress the files once at the client?
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The client will know how to uncompress it. As part of sending the server what type of client it is (user agent) it also sends if it can accept gzip compressed content.
It's basically unpacked on-the-fly by your computer.
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I'm confused if the files are gzipped then how do they get uncompressed when getting to the client? What is used to decompress the files once at the client?