For anyone coming across this in recent times, the request library supports gzip decompression out of the box now. Use as follows: request( { method: ‘GET’ , uri: ‘http://www.google.com’ , gzip: true } , function (error, response, body) { // body is the decompressed response body console.log(‘server encoded the data as: ‘ + (response.headers[‘content-encoding’] || … Read more
It is apparently due to a misunderstanding resulting from the choice of the name “Deflate”. The http standard clearly states that “deflate” really means the zlib format: The “zlib” format defined in RFC 1950 [31] in combination with the “deflate” compression mechanism described in RFC 1951 [29]. However early Microsoft servers would incorrectly deliver raw … Read more
I found the answer. You can change the code to: var request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(requestUri); request.AutomaticDecompression = DecompressionMethods.GZip | DecompressionMethods.Deflate; And you will have automatic decompression. No need to change the rest of the code.
There is some confusion about the naming between the specifications and the HTTP: DEFLATE as defined by RFC 1951 is a compressed data format. ZLIB as defined by RFC 1950 is a compressed data format that uses the DEFLATE data format. GZIP as defined by RFC 1952 is a file format that uses the DEFLATE … Read more
Something like the following will print the raw content, including the “$type $length\0” header: perl -MCompress::Zlib -e ‘undef $/; print uncompress(<>)’ \ < .git/objects/27/de0a1dd5a89a94990618632967a1c86a82d577
UPDATE: Browsers have been dropping support for raw deflate. zOompf has completed some very thorough research on this very topic here. Unfortunately, it appears that raw deflate is NOT safe to use. Check http://www.vervestudios.co/projects/compression-tests/results for more results. Here are the browsers that have been tested: /* Browser DEFLATE ZLIB */ XP Internet Explorer 6 PASS … Read more
Why use deflate instead of gzip for text files served by Apache? The simple answer is don’t. RFC 2616 defines deflate as: deflate The “zlib” format defined in RFC 1950 in combination with the “deflate” compression mechanism described in RFC 1951 The zlib format is defined in RFC 1950 as : 0 1 +—+—+ |CMF|FLG| … Read more