Jens Alfke created COUCHDB-2054:
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Summary: Content-Encoding on requests is ignored; should decode or
return 415
Key: COUCHDB-2054
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2054
Project: CouchDB
Issue Type: Bug
Security Level: public (Regular issues)
Components: HTTP Interface
Reporter: Jens Alfke
CouchDB (as of 1.4) seems to ignore the "Content-Encoding" header on requests,
and just parses the request body with no decoding. This causes incorrect
behavior — most often it tries to parse the encoded data as JSON and will fail
and return 400.
CouchDB should either decode the request body (e.g. unzip it), or else return a
415 status. Decoding would be quite useful: requests with large JSON bodies
(like revs_diff or the POST form of all_docs) can have their size cut in half
by gzip encoding.
HTTP 1.1 spec for Content-Encoding:
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.11
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