The request lib will automatically decompress the response for you. I think you'd be better off using http.request or http.get directly and avoiding any possible double handling. You can still pipe the response as you are now.
-- Dave Kuhn Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) On Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Jamison Dance wrote: > I have an Express server with a route that just proxies a request to > another server and pipes it back to the client. It looks like this: > > var request = require('request'); > function('/whatever', function(req, res) { > request.get({url: 'http://example.com/someGzippedThing', json: > true}).pipe(res); > }); > > If I hit http://example.com/someGzippedThing, the response is gzipped. > However, when I hi the /whatever route of my own server, the response > is not gzipped. How can I make sure it stays gzipped when it gets > piped back to the client? > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
