Hi, I think it would be great if httpclient support gzip decompressi

Added transparent_gzip_decompression property. closed by <a class="commit-link" data-h

Suggestion to implement transparent gzip decompression. about httpclient HOT 2 CLOSED

nahi commented on August 25, 2024

Suggestion to implement transparent gzip decompression.

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Teshootub7 commented on August 25, 2024

Additional info:

Sorry, I forgot to provide an example...
All you need to use "transparent gzip decompression" is done by:

clnt.transparent_gzip_decompression = true

Then you can retrieve a document as usual.

res = clnt.get("http://www.debian.org/")

The document is transferred with gzip compressed.

res.header["Content-Encoding"]
=> ["gzip"]
res.header["Content-Length"]
=> ["4422"]
res.content.length
=> 13942

And you can read the content without knowing it is compressed or not.

puts res.content
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
  <title>Debian -- The Universal Operating System </title>
....

Regards,

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nahi commented on August 25, 2024

Added transparent_gzip_decompression property. closed by 95964f1.

Applied a patch from Teshootub7. With setting
HTTPClient#transparent_gzip_decompression = true, HTTPClient tries to do
gzip/deflate content transmission. Following explanation is by
Teshootub7.

All you need to use "transparent gzip decompression" is done by:

clnt.transparent_gzip_decompression = true

Then you can retrieve a document as usual.

res = clnt.get("http://www.debian.org/")

The document is transferred with gzip compressed.

res.header["Content-Encoding"]
=> ["gzip"]
res.header["Content-Length"]
=> ["4422"]
res.content.length
=> 13942

And you can read the content without knowing it is compressed or not.

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