decompression gzip data with curl

Question

I added curl_easy_setopt(client, CURLOPT_ENCODING, \"gzip\"); to my code.

I expected curl to cause the server to send compressed data AND to decompress it

Answer 1

c++ CURL library does not compress/decompress your data. you must do it yourself.

        CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();

        struct curl_slist *headers=NULL;
        headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "Accept: application/json");
        headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "Content-Type: application/json");
        headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "Content-Encoding: gzip");

        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headers );
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "gzip");
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, zipped_data.data() );
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE, zipped_data.size() );