[issue1508475] transparent gzip compression in urllib

[Martin Panter]

Martin Panter added the comment:

I think the patch is indeed a bit short, for instannce it looks like calling read() without a size limit could bypass the decoding.

Also, I wonder if Content-Encoding handling is better done at a higher level. What if someone wants to download a *.tar.gz file? They may not expect the tar file to be transparently decompressed. And I suspect this would blow up if you tried a partial range request.

Transfer-Encoding is meant to be the proper way to transparently compress HTTP messages at a low level, but it doesn’t seem to be used as much in the real world.

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