deflate and gzip support for libfetch over http

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Tue Jul 1 11:38:58 UTC 2008


Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze at bsdforen.de> writes:
> I hacked together deflate support for the http part of libfetch. Next
> on my todo list is proper error handling, gzip support, code clean up
> and general code clean up in http.c (in order of priority).

I think the libfetch API has been stretched to its limit, or close to
it, and that it should be redesigned from scratch.  That said, I don't
see any harm in adding deflate / gzip support, but it has to be done in
a way that supports transfers that are chunked *and* compressed.

DES
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