From: Jeff Schilling <jeff@...>
Date: 2002-12-15T13:35:59+09:00
Subject: Ruby zlib on 1.7.3/W2k - uncompressing value from http get

I am using the PragProg 1.7.3 distro of ruby which includes zlib 0.5.1

I am trying to decode the response.body from an HTTP request.

Like this:
        headers["Accept-encoding"] = "gzip"
        uri = URI.parse(source)
        h = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host)
        resp = h.get(uri.path, headers)
        puts "Code = #{resp.code}"
        puts "Message = #{resp.message}"
        resp.each {|key, val| printf "%-14s = %-40.40s\n", key, val }
        data = resp.body
        if resp.fetch('content-encoding', 'None') == 'gzip'
           begin
            pp data[0..2]
            data = Zlib::Inflate.inflate(data)
           rescue StandardError => err
              print "Zlib error: #{err}\n"
           end
        end

This always results in : Zlib error: unknown compression method

Byte 2 of the string is \010 - which is correct.

Anyone seen this?

Thanks in advance.

-Jeff