You'll need to handle it yourself. Gzipped requests (unlike responses) are somewhat nonstandard.
(With a response, the client can say it supports gzip, but with requests, you basically have to prenegotiate it out-of-band -- at least, that's how I've encountered it in the past.) On Mar 4, 2017 4:53 PM, "Kevin Conway" <kevinjacobcon...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> AFAIK, there is (still?) no out-of-the-box support for gzip. > I believe this is the answer. I figured I'd fish around to see if anyone > had already solved and open sourced a solution to this problem. > > >> See, for example, https://github.com/NYTimes/gziphandler > While certainly related, this example only provides gzip _compression_ for > responses emitted from an HTTP server when the request has the appropriate > accept-encoding header. I'm also looking to gzip _decompress_ the incoming > request bodies when they are marked with an appropriate content-encoding > header. > > On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 4:16 PM John Kemp <stable.pseudo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> AFAIK, there is (still?) no out-of-the-box support for gzip. >> >> See, for example, https://github.com/NYTimes/gziphandler >> >> - johnk >> >> > On Mar 4, 2017, at 5:11 PM, Kevin Conway <kevinjacobcon...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > I'm running a go 1.7 HTTP server. One of my clients is applying gzip to >> the POST body of their request and applying the appropriate >> content-encoding header. The current server implementation in go, unlike >> the client, does not appear to automatically handle decompression of the >> body. This is causing calls to JSON unmarshal to fail because it, rightly, >> expects uncompressed data to work with. >> > >> > Certainly, we could add our own gzip reader on top of the request body >> to handle this. It seems strange, though, that this case is accounted for >> in the go HTTP client but not the server. >> > >> > Have I missed something obvious? >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "golang-nuts" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
