Uhm, no. It's not a server header (it's good to know where an RFC is, but to read it actually is far better :-) - it's a client header, and yes, the header is added by LWP because the request is HTTP/1.1. The server header would be Transfer-encoding, it would seem.

The deflate,gzip value gets added if the Zlib library is installed. I can't see that this is somehow cofigurable for now, it's buried in LWP/Protocol/http (in _new_socket): 

    local($^W) = 0;  # IO::Socket::INET can be noisy
    my $sock = $self->socket_class->new(PeerAddr => $host,
                                        PeerPort => $port,
                                        Proto    => 'tcp',
                                        Timeout  => $timeout,
                                        KeepAlive => !!$conn_cache,
                                        SendTE    => 1,
                                        $self->_extra_sock_opts($host,
+ $port),
                                       );

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Setting SendTE to 0 disables TE headers. The above config pseudo hash is passed to Net::HTTP->new it seems. If you get at the NET::HTTP object used by LWP::UserAgent, maybe you can disable sending TE headers..

--shmem 

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----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
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In reply to Re^3: LWP::UserAgent adding unwanted TE header by shmem
in thread LWP::UserAgent adding unwanted TE header by Anonymous Monk

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