Uncompress a gzip file from CURL, on php

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PartySoft picture PartySoft · Jun 9, 2010 · Viewed 39.5k times · Source

Does anyone know how to uncompress the contents of a gzip file that i got with curl?

for example: http://torcache.com/torrent/63ABC1435AA5CD48DCD866C6F7D5E80766034391.torrent

responded 

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:11:26 GMT
Content-Type: application/x-bittorrent
Content-Length: 52712
Last-Modified: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:09:58 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Expires: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:11:26 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=2592000
Content-Encoding: gzip
Accept-Ranges: bytes

then the compressed gzip,

i tried gzdecode but doesn't work , gzeflate as well doesn't they simply don't get any response, and the contents of the files are no more than 2k

Answer

mixdev picture mixdev · Jul 18, 2010

Just tell cURL to decode the response automatically whenever it's gzipped

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_ENCODING, '');

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