gzip decompression

[aantn]

Reproducible example: https://gist.github.com/913423

[aantn]

I don't have time right now to fork requests and implement this, but here is how httplib2 handles decompression:

http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#7p4WlYhzLQw/trunk/httplib2/__init__.py&q=zlib%20package:http://httplib2%5C.googlecode%5C.com&l=347

[kennethreitz]

Gzip'd data is supported and seamlessly decompressed by the underlying urllib2 library.

Its possible the server isn't sending the gzipped data over:

r.headers['Accept-encoding'] = 'gzip'

[aantn]

Thanks, you are correct.

[aantn]

Actually, content-encoding is set to gzip and accept-encoding is unset. Afaik, the two headers have independent meanings, so urllib2 should decompress the response.

References:

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.11 and http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.3

[kennethreitz]

Ah, hmm...

Well if I can make it function better than urllib2 I'm all for it.

[aantn]

Tonight I'll file a bug in urllib2. Let me see if I can fix this...

Edit: Sorry, I keep closing this by accident. I'm not used to the way GitHub orders the buttons.

[kennethreitz]

Moving to #19

[kennethreitz]

Update: v0.3.2 was just released which includes automatic gzip encoded content decompression.