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Re: [cp-patches] Patch: fix Content-Encoding for compressed HTTP respons


From: Anthony Green
Subject: Re: [cp-patches] Patch: fix Content-Encoding for compressed HTTP responses
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:10:52 -0800

On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 10:52 -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> When I run that case program, if I specify that it should ask for a
> gzip encoding, Sun's protocol handler hands back a gzipped stream --
> i.e., it does not uncompress.

I didn't even notice this option!

> I think either behavior is correct, since user code has no way of
> knowing whether it should have gotten a zipped stream.  But I
> wonder... Sun's behavior seems a bit nicer since it allows the option
> of not uncompressing, if that is what is wanted.

Ok, but this is a separate problem we could address in another patch.

> Also I wonder about throwing an exception if we don't recognize the
> content-encoding.  It seems to me that the caller might well recognize
> it somehow.

Maybe.  Again, this is a separate problem we can address in another
patch.

I just want to get this patch into rawhide.  My feeling is that it
solves an incompatibility, and introduces no regressions.

AG






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