Hi Tim, Tim Schlueter <schlueter....@linux.com> writes:
> Hi, > > I was wondering if there is any interest here in adding gzip compression > support to wget1. > > I recently came across a misconfigured web server which would gzip all > responses regardless of the accept-encoding HTTP request header. > > This motivated me to spend some time working on adding on the fly gzip > decompression to wget1 and making some other compression-related > improvements to the codebase (before I discovered that wget2 is a work > in progress). > > So before I spend more time working on it, I wanted to see if gzip > support is something that you would consider adding to wget1 if I > submitted a patch. I think that would be a nice feature to have. We are already linking to libz for the WARC support so gzip compression won't require a new dependency for wget. Regards, Giuseppe
