gzip HTTP results problem

[Fredrik Lundh]

Bill Loren wrote:

> I've encountered a problem trying to decode gzip data
> returned from an HTTP server I communicate with (I use urllib2).
> I've tried to use both the gzip and zlib come-along python libraries but
> alas.
>
> Have anyone of you ppl succeeded in talking gzip with an HTTP
> server ?

this might help:

    http://effbot.org/zone/consumer-gzip.htm

(that piece of code is used in production code, so it should
work...)

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