Sending gzipped data in WebRequest?

Question

I have a large amount of data (~100k) that my C# app is sending to my Apache server with mod_gzip installed. I\'m attempting to gzip the data first using System.IO.Compressi

Answer 1

According to http://www.dominoexperts.com/articles/GZip-servlet-to-gzip-your-pages

You should setContentType() to the original format, as you are doing with the application/x-www-form-urlencoded I assume. Then...

 // See if browser can handle gzip
 String encoding=req.getHeader("Accept-Encoding");
 if (encoding != null && encoding.indexOf("gzip") >=0 ) {  // gzip browser 
      res.setHeader("Content-Encoding","gzip");
      OutputStream o=res.getOutputStream();
      GZIPOutputStream gz=new GZIPOutputStream(o);
      gz.write(content.getBytes());
      gz.close();
      o.close();
            } else {  // Some old browser -> give them plain text.                        PrintWriter o = res.getWriter();
                    o.println(content);
                    o.flush();
                    o.close();
            }