IPFS Gateway not exposing content-length header when receiving Accept-Encoding
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Description
At the moment IPFS Gateway does not send content-length header in response when it receives Accept-encoding headers. This is problematic for caching that can only be performed when we know content-length and browsers fetch default to send such headers.
Taking into account https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybeib4zuumguq4cgkt7caddeukb4ysijnehvntekrtu5afmet5ujvlka/package.json , we get content-length with CURL, but not browser.

@lidel found out that Accept-Encoding request header was the root problem.
```sh
curl -sD - https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybeib4zuumguq4cgkt7caddeukb4ysijnehvntekrtu5afmet5ujvlka/package.json | grep -i content-length
```
```sh
curl -sD - -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip' https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybeib4zuumguq4cgkt7caddeukb4ysijnehvntekrtu5afmet5ujvlka/package.json | grep -i content-length
```
References:
- https://github.com/protocol/bifrost-infra/issues/1868
- https://github.com/nftstorage/nftstorage.link/pull/98
- https://github.com/metacpan/metacpan-api/issues/240#issuecomment-10258159
cc @lidel @thattommyhall @gmasgras
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