On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 17:36 -0800, johansen_at_sun.com wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:58:55PM -0800, Jason Corcoran wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I have a couple of issues with my curl app. At the moment, we are
> > sending 10 MB of data and we want to compress this. I understand that I
> > should set the Accept-Encoding to gzip, deflate but what else should I
> > set? What is the standard way to compress the data? and lastly are there
> > any examples out there of doing this with libCurl.
>
> Please have a look at lib/README.encoding in the Curl source tree.
> Setting Accept-Encoding by using CURLOPT_ENCODING is a polite request to
> the server to send a compressed response, if it can.
>
> If you want the client to send compressed data to the server, you'll
> need to compress the data yourself and add the compressed content to the
> post request. The server will have to know how to figure out that
> you're sending it compressed data.
>
> Curl has two different POST interfaces. The first is described here:
>
> http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html#CURLOPTPOST
>
> The second used curl_formadd:
>
> http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html#CURLOPTHTTPPOST
> http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_formadd.html
>
> -j

Thanks,

Found the info I needed. I was hoping that CURL had some sort of gzip
wrapper.

Thanks again for the info.

Jason.

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