ContentEncoding
property ContentEncoding: string read write;
Example
procedure ScriptEvent(var Value: variant);
begin
if Response <> nil then
begin
{ Leave blank unless Content already contains correctly coded bytes. }
Response.ContentEncoding := '';
Value := Response.ContentEncoding;
end;
end;
Usage
ContentEncoding gets or sets Content-Encoding metadata without compressing or otherwise transforming the response bytes.
Additional Technical Info
ContentEncoding maps directly to Indy's response ContentEncoding. A nonempty value is emitted as the Content-Encoding field; an empty value omits the field.
The property is metadata only. Velox, WebBroker and this bridge do not gzip, deflate, encrypt or otherwise transform Content or ContentString when it is assigned. Set the property only when the selected response bytes have already been encoded exactly as declared. Marking plain bytes as gzip, for example, causes conforming clients to attempt decompression and fail.
The value can contain a list of content-coding tokens in the order defined by HTTP semantics. It is distinct from transfer coding/framing and from the character encoding represented by the charset parameter of ContentType. Do not use it to set Transfer-Encoding.
No token syntax, supported-coding, body consistency or security validation occurs. Clear stale state when replacing a coded body with an uncoded one. Compression can expose resource-exhaustion or information-leak risks when secrets and attacker-controlled text share a compressed response; use an explicitly reviewed response policy.
Test Response for nil. The object is mutable and host-owned, and assignment performs no network I/O by itself.
External references
Created 2026-07-15