[nodejs] Piping gzipped responses?

2012-09-27 Thread Jamison Dance
I have an Express server with a route that just proxies a request to
another server and pipes it back to the client. It looks like this:

var request = require('request');
function('/whatever', function(req, res) {
  request.get({url: 'http://example.com/someGzippedThing', json:
true}).pipe(res);
});

If I hit http://example.com/someGzippedThing, the response is gzipped.
However, when I hi the /whatever route of my own server, the response
is not gzipped. How can I make sure it stays gzipped when it gets
piped back to the client?

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Re: [nodejs] Piping gzipped responses?

2012-09-27 Thread Dave Kuhn
The request lib will automatically decompress the response for you. I think 
you'd be better off using http.request or http.get directly and avoiding any 
possible double handling. You can still pipe the response as you are now.

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On Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Jamison Dance wrote:

 I have an Express server with a route that just proxies a request to
 another server and pipes it back to the client. It looks like this:
 
 var request = require('request');
 function('/whatever', function(req, res) {
 request.get({url: 'http://example.com/someGzippedThing', json:
 true}).pipe(res);
 });
 
 If I hit http://example.com/someGzippedThing, the response is gzipped.
 However, when I hi the /whatever route of my own server, the response
 is not gzipped. How can I make sure it stays gzipped when it gets
 piped back to the client?
 
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