From:	Bill Moseley	Date:	Sat Jul  5 10:39:25 2008
Subject:	Accept-Encoding defaults

HTTP::Message has a decoded_content() method that will attempt
to uncompress based on the Content-Encoding header in the response.

It's wrapped in an eval which will trap exceptions when trying to
require the modules used to uncompress the content.

It would make sense that I would set Accept-Encoding based on if I
have those modules installed.

Since the list of modules (Compress::Zlib and Compress::Bzip2) is
internal to HTTP::Message, would it make sense to provide a method
that could set the Accept-Encoding based on what HTTP::Message uses?
Something like:

    $req->set_default_accept_encoding;

I'm not clear if there's a need to also specify a quality for the
encodings in the Accept-Encoding header.

This can't be the default as it would break existing users.

I often notice code that uses $res->content instead of
$res->decoded_content.  Most of the time it seems like users really
want the decoded content.

I kind of wonder why $res->content is not decoded by default (and
provide $res->raw_content for those that need it).


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Bill Moseley
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