LWP and gzip

[sprint]

New to perl and experimenting with LWP.

However I have come across some website content that comes down as
"content-encoding: gzip" followed by a few hundred bytes of
gobbledegook.

Can someone point me to some sample code to de-crypt this on the fly,
please

Thanks

 

[Sam Holden]

New to perl and experimenting with LWP.

However I have come across some website content that comes down as
"content-encoding: gzip" followed by a few hundred bytes of
gobbledegook.

Can someone point me to some sample code to de-crypt this on the fly,
please

I'd guess that the uncompress function in Compress::Zlib might do the trick.

However, it seems a bit "rude" for a web server to send gzip encoded
stuff unless you specified it in the Accept-Encoding header of the request.

 

[Gregory Toomey]

New to perl and experimenting with LWP.

However I have come across some website content that comes down as
"content-encoding: gzip" followed by a few hundred bytes of
gobbledegook.

Can someone point me to some sample code to de-crypt this on the fly,
please

Thanks

You are proabably downloading a file stored in zip format on the server.
Archive::zip (available from www.cpan.org) works with plain zip files.

On Linux I would call the Linux utilities "gunzip" or "zcat", using the Perl
"system" command, to unzip the file.

gtoomey

 

[news]

However I have come across some website content that comes down as
"content-encoding: gzip" followed by a few hundred bytes of
gobbledegook.

The webserver shouldn't provide content with gzip encoding unless your
client has offered that capability. Complain to the website provider.

Can someone point me to some sample code to de-crypt this on the fly,
please

Feed the data content through one of the many gzip modules
(e.g. Compress:Zlib or maybe PerlIO::gzip) to uncompress it.

Chris