Hi, Stefan Beller wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 4:40 PM, Brandon Williams <bmwill@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Configure curl to accept all encoding which curl supports instead of >> only accepting gzip responses. > > This partially reverts aa90b9697f9 (Enable info/refs gzip decompression > in HTTP client, 2012-09-19), as that specifically called out deflate not being > a good option. Is that worth mentioning in the commit message? More specifically, it mentions the wasted 9 extra bytes from including "deflate, " on the Accept-Encoding line. I think the extra bandwidth usage will be okay. :) [...] >> - curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "gzip"); >> + curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, ""); > > Looking at the code here, this succeeds if enough memory is available. > There is no check if the given parameter is part of > Curl_all_content_encodings(); > https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/e66cca046cef20d00fba89260dfa6b4a3997233d/lib/setopt.c#L429 > https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/c675c40295045d4988eeb6291c54eb48f138822f/lib/content_encoding.c#L686 > > which may be worth checking first? By "this" are you referring to the preimage or the postimage? Are you suggesting a change in git or in libcurl? Curl_all_content_encodings() is an internal function in libcurl, so I'm assuming the latter. Thanks, Jonathan
