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Re: Force content decoding

From: Wolf Vollprecht via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2022 11:19:13 +0200

Hi Timothe,

Thanks for your message. Indeed, I want to decode the data. The server is not broken (it’s the Github OCI registry server), I just cannot control what headers it sends for the binary blobs that I uploaded.

Ideally I would have wanted to re-use the internal libcurl functions for decoding that would be used if the server would reply with the correct Content-Encoding vs implementing it in my WRITEFUNCTION.

Best,

Wolf
 

> On 7. Jul 2022, at 11:15, Timothe Litt via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se> wrote:
>
>
> On 07-Jul-22 03:56, Wolf Vollprecht via curl-library wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have some data that I am downloading where I know that it is gzip-encoded. However, the server does not respond with the correct header (and I don’t have control over it). I was wondering if there is a way to either “manually” append the proper Content-Encoding header to the response or force libcurl to encode the response with gzip?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Wolf
> I assume you mean "decode", not "encode". After the mandatory lecture about not tolerating broken servers...
>
> For the command line:
>
> curl https://foo.example.com/bar <https://foo.example.com/bar> | gunzip > data
>
> If you are using libcurl, depending on your requirements see zlib (libz) with CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION or popen() gunzip (or gzip -d).
>
>
>
> Timothe Litt
> ACM Distinguished Engineer
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