HTTPResponse Disable GZip Decompression?

[mike%eng...@gtempaccount.com]

Hello, I am using the Http client 1.19 (from maven). I have a use case where I want to download GZIP files, and keep them compressed. However I see that HTTPResponse.getContent() contains the following code:

          // gzip encoding (wrap content with GZipInputStream)

          String contentEncoding = this.contentEncoding;

          if (contentEncoding != null && contentEncoding.contains("gzip")) {

            lowLevelResponseContent = new GZIPInputStream(lowLevelResponseContent);

          }

I'm considering creating a fork and implementing a way to either set a flag to allow this to be disabled, or perhaps exposing the lowLevelResponseContent through a get method or something.

However, before I do that, I wanted to check if maybe there's another way to do this that I haven't considered (some other class that I should be using etc.)?

If not, I would like some feedback from the committers before I proceed as to the preferred method of implementing this?

Thanks in advance.

-Mike

[Daniel Wang]

Unfortunately there isn't a way to disable the decoding of GZipped content yet.

[mi...@engisys.com]

I actually have implemented a patch for this and would like to contribute it. Is this link still valid for the process of contributing patches? https://code.google.com/p/google-http-java-client/wiki/BecomingAContributor (For example, I see it looks like you are transitioning over to github).

Thanks!

[Daniel Wang]

We are working on updated instructions of contributing, but majority of the process documented there is still valid, e.g., signing a CLA, code reviewing process and etc. You have to fork and work with the new github repository though.