Header filtering/modification by Google Frontend

Google Frontend (GFE) appears to remove the header fields "Accept-Encoding", "Keep-Alive" and "Connection". Furthermore, it seems to add ",gzip(gfe)" to the User-Agent string.

Compare what's sent by the browser ...

Host: your-app-id.appspot.com
User-Agent: OriginalUserAgentString
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: sv-se,sv;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: JSESSIONID=session-id-string

... to what's received by the GAE/J application after filtering by Google Frontend (GFE) ...

Host: your-app-id.appspot.com
User-Agent: OriginalUserAgentString,gzip(gfe)
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: sv-se,sv;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Cookie: JSESSIONID=session-id-string

As I've understood it GFE takes care of compressing the response, so removing "Accept-Encoding" makes sense. I guess ",gzip(gfe)" is added to the User-Agent to indicate to the back-end that the response will be compressed before being sent to the client.