From: "drbrain (Eric Hodel)" Date: 2013-02-12T08:57:45+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:52134] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7831][Open] Net::HTTP does not allow users to handle Content-Encoding in responses like 1.x Issue #7831 has been reported by drbrain (Eric Hodel). ---------------------------------------- Bug #7831: Net::HTTP does not allow users to handle Content-Encoding in responses like 1.x https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7831 Author: drbrain (Eric Hodel) Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: naruse (Yui NARUSE) Category: lib Target version: 2.0.0 ruby -v: - I added a feature to always add a feature to always add Accept-Encoding to HTTP requests and always decode HTTP responses with Content-Encoding. On Ruby 1.9 and older you could handle Content-Encoding for yourself. Now Ruby always handles Content-Encoding for you, but does not give you a good indicator that this has taken place. In mechanize this leads to an incompatibility as the Content-Length header is not updated from the original value. This also disallows handling of bad server responses that browsers handle. The attached patch (upcoming) addresses this by only handling Content-Decoding in a response if the user did not override the Accept-Encoding header. Since this is an incompatibility I would like this fixed for Ruby 2.0. Sorry I did not catch it sooner, I was too busy with RubyGems and RDoc. -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/