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How to get compressed body of a gzipped HTTP response?

Jan 18 '17 at 19:31

Using CkHttp or CkRest, how can one get the compressed body (before being decompressed) of a gzipped response?

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Unfortunately, it's not possible..

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Maybe it's possible with CkRest -- I'll have to see. Auto-decompression is too enmeshed in the guts of CkHttp to warrant trying to add the feature, but maybe CkRest is easier. I can't make any promises here, as there's so much to do already..

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It would be great if it could be possible with CkRest. One major use case for this is for instance when forwarding or caching the response in its already-compressed form, because this would eliminate the need for another (unnecessary) compression.

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Maybe it could be something like a

bool ReadRespBodyBinary(CkByteData &outBytes, bool Raw);

method in CkRest where Raw could specify getting the body without decompression applied to it.