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Re: Content-Encoding when not sending Accept-Encoding

From: Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:19:01 -0700

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:46:56AM +0000, Tom Grace wrote:
> I noticed that when using the Stack Overflow API, gzipped content is
> always returned. The Content-Encoding: gzip header is returned, but
> Curl (7.19.7) does not follow this header and returns gzipped data.
> Is this expected behaviour ?

This is expected. curl will return the raw data by default. To have it
automatically decompress when necessary, use the --compressed option.

>>> Dan
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Received on 2011-03-21