* lib/net/http/response.rb: Automatically inflate gzip and

  deflate-encoded response bodies.  [Feature #6942]
* lib/net/http/generic_request.rb:  Automatically accept gzip and
  deflate content-encoding for requests.  [Feature #6494]
* lib/net/http/request.rb:  Updated documentation for #6494.
* lib/net/http.rb:  Updated documentation for #6492 and #6494, removed
  Content-Encoding handling now present in Net::HTTPResponse.
* test/net/http/test_httpresponse.rb:  Tests for #6492
* test/net/http/test_http_request.rb:  Tests for #6494
* test/open-uri/test_open-uri.rb (test_content_encoding):  Updated test
  for automatic content-encoding handling.


git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@36473 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/net/http/generic_request.rb b/lib/net/http/generic_request.rb
index ca4e48f277..bcf87d35be 100644
--- a/lib/net/http/generic_request.rb
+++ b/lib/net/http/generic_request.rb
@@ -14,6 +14,18 @@ class Net::HTTPGenericRequest
     raise ArgumentError, "no HTTP request path given" unless path
     raise ArgumentError, "HTTP request path is empty" if path.empty?
     @path = path
+
+    if @response_has_body and Net::HTTP::HAVE_ZLIB then
+      if !initheader ||
+         !initheader.keys.any? { |k|
+           %w[accept-encoding range].include? k.downcase
+         } then
+        initheader = initheader ? initheader.dup : {}
+        initheader["accept-encoding"] =
+          "gzip;q=1.0,deflate;q=0.6,identity;q=0.3"
+      end
+    end
+
     initialize_http_header initheader
     self['Accept'] ||= '*/*'
     self['User-Agent'] ||= 'Ruby'