Does Apache Commons HttpClient support GZIP?

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benstpierre picture benstpierre · May 5, 2010 · Viewed 29k times · Source

Does the library Apache Commons HttpClient support Gzip? We wanted to use enable gzip compression on our Apache server to speed up the client/server communications (we have a php page that allows our Android application to sync files with the Server).

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ok2c picture ok2c · May 7, 2010

Apache HttpClient 4.1 supports content compression out of the box along with many other features that were previously considered out of scope.

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