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Claude Code v2.1.296 ·

Some requests can now ask for uncompressed responses

Under some condition, Claude Code now asks the server not to compress a response and stops unpacking it itself

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Unclear When this condition applies is not known.

What

One of Claude Code's request paths now, under a certain condition, asks the server not to compress the response and turns off its own unpacking of compressed data.

Why

It may work around problems with compressed responses.

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