transparent gzip compression in urllib

[antialize]

BPO	1508475
Nosy	@rhettinger, @jcea, @orsenthil, @vstinner, @merwok, @berkerpeksag, @vadmium, @JimJJewett, @serhiy-storchaka, @demianbrecht
Files	urllib2-gzip.patch: urllib2-gzip.patch issue1508475.diff http_client_gzip.patch

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title = 'transparent gzip compression in urllib'
updated_at = <Date 2015-03-07.02:32:39.334>
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Linked PRs

• gh-43521: Add an opt-in gzip Content-Encoding handler to urllib.request #154197

[antialize]

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..

[jjlee]

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.

[BreamoreBoy]

@jakob could you provide an updated patch for py3k that includes unit test and doc changes?

[antialize]

No, I have long since moved on to other things.

[orsenthil]

Its okay, Jacab, we will take it forward.