On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Daniel Stenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > >> Regarding simplicity, what's the reason CURLOPT_ENCODING doesn't default >> to ""? > > Good old fashioned conservatism. libcurl does very simple requests by > default by tradition and lets the app add the fancy stuff to it with > options. This mostly because internet protocols tend to be implemented > fragile and changing default behaviors tend to lead to something breaking > somewhere. > > But I'm open to suggestions and feedback. If I just get enough motivation > and people expressing a desire, I'll be willing to change defaults (and > more).
The content encoding header has been around for quite some time and using compression is fairly standard practice nowadays. I feel the good guys shouldn't be dragged down because some bad guys use a faulty web server. Olaf ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
