akka/akka-http

Http, client: Provide high-level support for response decompression

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#209 opened on Sep 9, 2016

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Issue by jrudolph Tuesday Feb 10, 2015 at 14:24 GMT Originally opened as https://github.com/akka/akka/issues/16813

See spray/spray#987

In spray, you could add a decode(...) clause to your pipeline to add support for a single decoder. As noted in the ticket it would make sense to provide also an automatic solution that tries all known decodes.

/cc @sirthias

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Investigate how spray implemented response decompression in spray/spray#987 and how the Akka HTTP client pipeline works. Implement an automatic decoder that tries known decoders (e.g., gzip, deflate) and adds support for a `decode` directive.
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