httpencoding

Documentation

Overview

Package httpencoding provides functions to transparently encode/decode HTTP bodies

Index

• func CompressData(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) io.WriteCloser
• func UncompressData(r *http.Response) (io.ReadCloser, error)

Functions

func CompressData

func CompressData(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) io.WriteCloser

CompressData returns a writer that writes encoded data to w. The chosen encoding is based on the Accept-Encoding header and defaults to the identity encoding.

func UncompressData

func UncompressData(r *http.Response) (io.ReadCloser, error)

UncompressData returns a reads that decodes data from r.Body. The encoding is determined based on the Content-Encoding header and an error is returned if the encoding is unknown.