AFNetworking Enable GZIP

Question

I am looking on the AFNetworking site that GZIP compression is supported \" Gzip decompression from server responses is already built into AFNetworking, as NSURLConnection will

Answer 1

AFAIK NSURLConnection uses gzip decompresson by default and AFNetworking builds on the top of NSURLConnection. So, you shouldn't have to enable it.

Answer 2

It seems you need to add a HTTP header :

[self setDefaultHeader:@"Accept-Encoding" value:@"gzip"]

To the AfNetworking HTTP client.