zlib, gzip and HTTP compression.

[Alan Kennedy]

rmunn at pobox.com (Robin Munn) wrote in message 
> I have no idea if this might be causing your problem, but print adds a
> newline after whatever it prints. What happens if you use
> sys.stdout.write() instead?

I tried that, but unfortunately to no avail.

When outputting the HTTP headers, they should be separated by CR-LF,
or "\r\n" in a python string, so print is definitely doing the right
thing there. When it comes to the HTTP body, I don't think print does
any translation, although things might get confused if it added at
CRLF after the HTTP body.

But to be sure to be sure, I changed

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print "Content-Encoding: gzip"
print "Content-Length: %d" % (len(zbuf))
print                    # end of headers
print zbuf               # and then the buffer
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to 

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sys.stdout.write("Content-Encoding: gzip\r\n")
sys.stdout.write("Content-Length: %d\r\n" % (len(zbuf)))
sys.stdout.write("\r\n") # end of headers
sys.stdout.write(zbuf)   # and then the buffer
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But got exactly the same results between the two.

It was definitely worth a try.

I'm going to get to the bottom of this!

optimistical-ly yrs :-)

Alan.