HttpClient.Compression is a Portable Class Library for using GZIP and DEFLATE compression in conjunction with Microsoft's new PCL version of the HttpClient. It is based on a Gist created by Morten Nielsen, but runs on all platforms.
Works on .NET 4.0, 4.0.3, & 4.5, Silverlight 4 & 5, Windows Phone 7.5 & 8, and Windows 8.
Install the NuGet package: Install-Package HttpClient.Compression -Pre, clone the repo, git clone git://github.com/advancedrei/HttpClient.Compression.git, or download the latest release.
To use in your code, create a new instance of the CompressedHttpClientHandler, and pass it into the HttpClient, as shown below.
var handler = new CompressedHttpClientHandler();
var client = new HttpClient(handler);
var result = await client.GetStringAsync("https://nuget.org/api/v2/Packages()?$filter=tolower(Id)%20eq%20'microsoft.bcl.async'&$orderby=Id&$skip=0&$top=30");
You can verify that the payload was compressed using Fiddler.
Have a bug? Please create an issue here on GitHub that conforms with necolas's guidelines.
https://github.com/AdvancedREI/HttpClient.Compression/issues
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