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authorShawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>2012-09-19 16:12:02 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-09-20 10:26:50 -0700
commitaa90b9697f9275e4f9cb10d274495e7587f217c0 (patch)
tree0a76cc125c8c2ad79080cadd4c98644dd1f1049a /http.c
parent25ae7cfd19c8f21721363c64163cd5d9d1135b20 (diff)
downloadgit-aa90b9697f9275e4f9cb10d274495e7587f217c0.tar.gz
Enable info/refs gzip decompression in HTTP client
Some HTTP servers try to use gzip compression on the /info/refs request to save transfer bandwidth. Repositories with many tags may find the /info/refs request can be gzipped to be 50% of the original size due to the few but often repeated bytes used (hex SHA-1 and commonly digits in tag names). For most HTTP requests enable "Accept-Encoding: gzip" ensuring the /info/refs payload can use this encoding format. Only request gzip encoding from servers. Although deflate is supported by libcurl, most servers have standardized on gzip encoding for compression as that is what most browsers support. Asking for deflate increases request sizes by a few bytes, but is unlikely to ever be used by a server. Disable the Accept-Encoding header on probe RPCs as response bodies are supposed to be exactly 4 bytes long, "0000". The HTTP headers requesting and indicating compression use more space than the data transferred in the body. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'http.c')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
index 9bac1d89fd..345c171c5f 100644
--- a/http.c
+++ b/http.c
@@ -818,6 +818,7 @@ static int http_request(const char *url, void *result, int target, int options)
curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_URL, url);
curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headers);
+ curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "gzip");
if (start_active_slot(slot)) {
run_active_slot(slot);