Disable Automatic Decompression

[leonardo-murano]

Hi,

I'm using a HTTP request to connect to a REST API and download some data and possibly store it via write_disk. As it could be really large, they deliver it compressed in gzip format.
The problem is that the library is autodecompressing it even before I call the content() method and I tried it all but haven't find a way to disable this, is there any way to do so?

[hadley]

It is possible, but I forget exactly how — you'll need to do a little googling to figure out what option (which appears to be on by default) does this in curl. I'm going to be working on httr for a couple of weeks, so if you still need this, and can't figure it out yourself, please ping me again in a week or so, and I should have more of httr loaded in my brain.