From: Timothy Goddard <interfecus@...>
Date: 2006-02-16T15:03:27+09:00
Subject: Re: HTTP client with zip compression for Ruby

You may need to combine an HTTP socket with ZLib by yourself. You could
simply analyse the headers for the Content-encoding and use
ZLib::inflate on the body if it equals 'gzip'. It shouldn't be hard at
all.