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I am trying to do a request that accepts a compressed response var request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(requestUri); request.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.AcceptEncoding, "gzip,deflate"); I wonder if when I add the second line I will have to handle the decompression manually. Jader Dias I found the answer. You can change the code to: var request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(requestUri); request.AutomaticDecompression = DecompressionMethods.GZip | DecompressionMethods.Deflate; And you will have automatic decompression. No need to change the rest of the code. For .NET Core

I'm trying to figure out how the best way to easily send HTTP/HTTPS requests and to handle gzip/deflate compressed responses along with cookies. The best I found was https://github.com/mikeal/request which handles everything except compression. Is there a module or method that will do everything I ask? If not, can I combine request and zlib in some manner? I tried to combine zlib and http.ServerRequest, and it failed miserably. Thanks! jcreignou Note: as of 2019, request has gzip decompression built in. You can still decompress requests manually using the below method. You can simply combine

UPDATE Feb 10 2012: zOompf has completed some very thorough research on this very topic here . It trumps any findings below. UPDATE Sept 11 2010: A testing platform has been created for this here HTTP 1.1 definitions of GZIP and DEFLATE (zlib) for some background information: " 'Gzip' is the gzip format, and 'deflate' is the zlib format . They should probably have called the second one 'zlib' instead to avoid confusion with the raw deflate compressed data format. While the HTTP 1.1 RFC 2616 correctly points to the zlib specification in RFC 1950 for the 'deflate' transfer encoding, there have

I'm looking for a command line wrapper for the DEFLATE algorithm. I have a file (git blob) that is compressed using DEFLATE, and I want to uncompress it. The gzip command does not seem to have an option to directly use the DEFLATE algorithm, rather than the gzip format. Ideally I'm looking for a standard Unix/Linux tool that can do this. edit: This is the output I get when trying to use gzip for my problem: $ cat .git/objects/c0/fb67ab3fda7909000da003f4b2ce50a53f43e7 | gunzip gzip: stdin: not in gzip format UPDATE: Mark Adler noted that git blobs are not raw DEFLATE streams, but zlib streams.

What advantages do either method offer for html, css and javascript files served by a LAMP server. Are there better alternatives? The server provides information to a map application using Json, so a high volume of small files. See also Is there any performance hit involved in choosing gzip over deflate for http compression? Sam Saffron Why use deflate instead of gzip for text files served by Apache? The simple answer is don't . RFC 2616 defines deflate as: deflate The "zlib" format defined in RFC 1950 in combination with the "deflate" compression mechanism described in RFC 1951 The zlib