Support for Gzip/Inflate

[ixti]

Would like to see HTTP gem playing well with GZip/Inflate out of the box.

[ixti]

@sferik I doubt we will be able to get this support on 0.8.0 :D I have moved this to 1.0.0, if we will be able to sneak this in 0.9.0 - awesome, if not - well, 1.0.0 still seems reasonable to me :D

[sferik]

I moved this into the v0.9 milestone, since there isn’t much else in there, so I’m optimistic that this can be implemented ahead of the v1.0 release. I view the entire v0.9 series as a pre-release of v1.0. In theory, we shouldn’t be making any breaking changes between v0.9 and v1.0.

If we release v0.9 and it’s stable for a month, we can ship it as v1.0.

[zanker]

I can't remember if this is extremely hard or extremely easy, I think the streaming makes it more annoying but I can double check on doing this quickly.

[tarcieri]

It's pretty easy to do with Zlib::Inflate

[zanker]

I thought it was supposed to be more annoying to stream but apparently I was wrong. Maybe I'm thinking of something else

/shrug

I'll take a look into it for 0.9 then