On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>
>> Regarding simplicity, what's the reason CURLOPT_ENCODING doesn't default
>> to ""?
>
> Good old fashioned conservatism. libcurl does very simple requests by
> default by tradition and lets the app add the fancy stuff to it with
> options. This mostly because internet protocols tend to be implemented
> fragile and changing default behaviors tend to lead to something breaking
> somewhere.
>
> But I'm open to suggestions and feedback. If I just get enough motivation
> and people expressing a desire, I'll be willing to change defaults (and
> more).

The content encoding header has been around for quite some time and
using compression is fairly standard practice nowadays.
I feel the good guys shouldn't be dragged down because some bad guys
use a faulty web server.

Olaf
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