Is there a command-line tool that could tell me if Gzip is really on beyond the Gzip 1 header param?

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Published on 2012-03-20T20:01:07Z Indexed on 2012/03/20 23:29 UTC
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Is there a command-line tool that could tell me if Gzip is on? What I'm looking for is something that can say the stream coming from the server is really gzipped even if the header params say Gzip:1 (which it could be falsely placing in the headers).

I don't see a switch in curl, or wget, or tcpdump, or anything, but maybe I'm just missing something, or perhaps there is something else that could provide me this bit of information? Any help would be appreciated.

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