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bug 1017: Disable protocol.http.compression by default

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To work around buggy servers until bug 1017 has actually been fixed,
i.e., ELinks reports decompression errors to the user.
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Kalle Olavi Niemitalo 2009-06-07 12:28:01 +03:00 committed by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
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@ -5,6 +5,16 @@ You can see the complete list of recent changes, bugfixes and new features
in the http://repo.or.cz/w/elinks.git[gitweb interface]. See the ChangeLog
file for details.
ELinks 0.12pre4.GIT now:
------------------------
To be released as 0.12pre5, 0.12rc1, or even 0.12.0. This branch also
includes the changes listed under ``ELinks 0.11.6.GIT now'' below.
* minor bug 1017: To work around HTTP server bugs, disable
protocol.http.compression by default, until ELinks can report
decompression errors or automatically retry the connection.
ELinks 0.12pre4:
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src/protocol/http/http.c
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@ -182,10 +182,17 @@ static struct option_info http_options[] = {
"risk because it tells web-masters and the FBI sniffers "
"about your language preference.")),
/* After the compression support has been tested enough,
* we might wrap this option in #if CFG_DEBUG. */
/* http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/Intel-Psion-End-Dispute-Concerning-Netbook-Trademark-288875/
* responds with "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" and
* "Content-Encoding: gzip" but does not compress the first chunk
* and the last chunk, causing ELinks to display garbage.
* (If User-Agent includes "Gecko" (case sensitive), then
* that server correctly compresses the whole stream.)
* ELinks should instead report the decompression error (bug 1017)
* or perhaps even blacklist the server for compression and retry.
* Until that has been implemented, disable compression by default. */
INIT_OPT_BOOL("protocol.http", N_("Enable on-the-fly compression"),
"compression", 0, 1,
"compression", 0, 0,
N_("If enabled, the capability to receive compressed content "
"(gzip and/or bzip2) is announced to the server, which "
"usually sends the reply compressed, thus saving some "