Re: GZip encoding

[Mark R. Diggory]

Beautiful, I can integrate this easily into our library.

David Hay wrote:

I don't believe that HttpClient handles GZip or any other kind of decoding of the 
reply content.  That's up to the application using the library.  Here's what we do to 
handle the case when the server doesn't report the content type correctly:

       if ( contentType == null || contentType.equals( "content/unknown" ) ) {
           // Let's look for gzip data another way if we can
           if ( urlStream.markSupported() ) {
               urlStream.mark( 2 );
               int id1 = urlStream.read();
               int id2 = urlStream.read();
               urlStream.reset();

               // These numbers are magic. See the RFC 1952 Gzip File
               // Format Specification located at:
               // http://www.gzip.org/zlib/rfc-gzip.html
               if ( id1 == 0x1F && id2 == 0x8B ) {
                   // we've got gzip data
                   contentType = "application/x-gzip-compressed";
               }
           }
       }
       if ( contentType != null && contentType.startsWith( 
"application/x-gzip-compressed" ) ) {
                urlStream = GZIPInputStream( urlStream );
       }

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark R. Diggory [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 9:42 AM
To: Commons HttpClient Project
Subject: GZip encoding

We're having issues where content from our service is being sent GZip encoded to the HttpClient, But with an error that its gzip transfer encoding header isn't set properly by the server (thank our server developer). Most browsers (and clients in perl etc) seem to catch this error early and fall into GZip decoding. I would like to catch this condition and have the client still gzip decode the stream. First, does HttpClient support gzip decoding, and Second, is there a way I can force to gzip decode if the header is broken?

thanks,
Mark

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