curl-library
Detecting that a retrieval was gzipped
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 23:49:12 -0700
Hi,
I am a long-time user and big fan of Curl, fetching 2+ GB per
day of RSS at www.syndic8.com .
I recently upgraded to Curl 7.11.2 and am currently doing some
experimentation with CURLOPT_ENCODING.
Is there any way for me to detect that a retrieval was actually
decompressed by Curl? I tried comparing the value retrieved by
CURLINFO_SIZE_DOWNLOAD against the value returned from the
curl_exec call (I am using RETURN_TRANSFER) but they are
always the same.
Intuitively, I was expecting CURLINFO_SIZE_DOWNLOAD to return
the physical number of bytes transferred, not the expanded
size?
Is the actual size available? Ultimately, I would like to be
able to compute the effective compression ratio for each
RSS feed.
Thanks,
Jeff;
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