On 25 November 2010 19:41, Anand Ramanathan <rcan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, confirmed that they are. It is gzip - what is the best way to deal with
> this? Is this a bug that is tracked, or is this something worth handling in
> client code (checking if gzip and manually unzipping)?
> Thanks
> Anand

Curl can definitely handle gzipped responses. Here's something about
it from a very quick Google search:
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/curlphp-2004-01/0043.html

Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)


> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongm...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Anand Ramanathan <rcan...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > OK, I got it again: Here is my curl output (headers + first few
>> > characters)
>> > for the garbled India wikipedia page (and the proper China wikipedia
>> > page
>> > for comparison below that):
>>
>> Can you verify that the first two characters are 0x1f and 0x8b
>> respectively? Looks like gzip.
>>
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