#327 compression encoding problem

[Julian Bond]

See also http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=23702

curl 7.10.2 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.10.2
OpenSSL/0.9.6b zlib/1.1.4

Been trying to get compression from inside php 4.3.2
both on linux and Win32 without success.
CURLOPT_ENCODING is being ignored and the
accept-encoding header is never sent.

So I tried
curl --compressed http://www.voidstar.com/temp/accept.php
on linux and got
curl: (23) Error while processing content unencoding.
unknown compression method

That server has php set to zlib.output_compression=1
and when the page is called from a browser with
Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate it returns
Content-Encoding: gzip
with no problems

So it looks to me like somewhere, between curl, php and
my installations, encoding support is broken. Any ideas?

[Julian Bond]

Logged In: YES
user_id=820604

Another data point. Upgraded to 7.10.5 (doh!) and
--compressed worked. But php 4.3.2 and 4.3.3rc1 both still
fail. It also looks like 4.3.2 and 4.3.3rc1 on MS Win
doesn't link to the zlib library.

So I don't think this is a curl or librcurl problem, but a
php problem.

[Daniel Stenberg]

Logged In: YES
user_id=1110

Not a libcurl bug!