I just re-tested this with the latest ethereal-10.14 with both a Windows
Binary install and FC4 source compile.
Same problem, gzip inside HTTP does not decode.
Use Ethereal to capture traffic from "www.yahoo.com"
Then "follow" the first port 80 connection:
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Host: www.yahoo.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12)
Gecko/20050915
Accept:
application/x-shockwave-flash,text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,*/*;q=0.1
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: FPB=551u865dl11ro3c4;
D=_ylh=X3oDMTFmODljcHFqBF9TAzI3MTYxNDkEcGlkAzExMzYzOTY5OTAEdGVzdAMwBHRtcGwDaW5kZXgtY3Nz;
B=a7i4uvt1ro3c4&b=2
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:25:36 GMT
P3P: policyref="http://p3p.yahoo.com/w3c/p3p.xml";, CP="CAO DSP COR CUR
ADM DEV TAI PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi TELo OTPi OUR DELi SAMi OTRi UNRi
PUBi IND PHY ONL UNI PUR FIN COM NAV INT DEM CNT STA POL HEA PRE GOV"
Set-Cookie: D=; expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 22:00:00 GMT; path=/;
domain=.yahoo.com
Cache-Control: private
Vary: User-Agent
Set-Cookie:
D=_ylh=X3oDMTFmMWZna2o1BF9TAzI3MTYxNDkEcGlkAzExMzY0MDE5NzAEdGVzdAMwBHRtcGwDaW5kZXgtY3Nz;
path=/; domain=.yahoo.com
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Encoding: gzip
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