4.0.11: Skips content encoding of empty entities. #9008
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Description
Backport of #9000 to 4.0.11
Skips content encoding of empty entities. Attempting to encode an empty entity with an encoder such as GZIP will result in a non-empty entity (a GZIP preamble) which is problematic --especially when a 204 is returned by a handler. See issue #8998.