[Patches] [ python-Patches-1508475 ] transparent gzip compression in liburl2

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Patches item #1508475, was opened at 2006-06-19 09:59
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Category: Modules
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Jakob Truelsen (antialize)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: transparent gzip compression in liburl2

Initial Comment:
Some webservers support gzipping things before sending
them, this patch adds transparrent support for this in
urllib2 (documentation http://www.http-compression.com/)

This patach *requires* hash patch 914340 as a
prerequirement as this enabels stream support in the
gzip libary.. 

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Comment By: John J Lee (jjlee)
Date: 2007-01-30 01:34

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Looks good.

This needs tests and docs.  As a new feature, this could not be released
until Python 2.6.

It would be nice to have support for managing content negotiation in
general, but that wish isn't an obstacle to this patch.


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