On Tue, 3 May 2011, Andrej van der Zee wrote:

>> $ gzip request.xml
>> $ curl -d @request.xml.gz -H "content-type: application/octet-stream localhost/cgi-bin/xxx.cgi
>
> I think gzip writes headers about the file in the gz-file. The cgi-app does
> not expect these headers and fails on it, it seems.

As I explained, the compression is not really HTTP at all so what the server
expects or desires is left for you to figure out and provide.

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