Compression

Automatic deflating

The HTTP.use(:auto_deflate) option can be used for automatically compressing the request body before writing it to the socket:

response=HTTP.use(:auto_deflate).post("http://example.org/upload",body: body)

By default gzip encoding will be used, but deflate is also supported:

response=HTTP.use(:auto_deflate=>{:method=>:deflate}).post("http://example.org/upload",body: body)

Automatic inflating

The HTTP.use(:auto_inflate) option can be used for automatically decompressing the response body:

response=HTTP.use(:auto_inflate).headers("Accept-Encoding"=>"gzip").get("http://example.org/large-file")