HTTP GZIP support?

[Fontano]

During our development, we are using uncompressed REST webservices.
This is fine for development, but we know we are going to have to use gZIP compression to get much better performance.

Has anyone tried accessing a compressed data stream (using GZIP) on the iPhone?

If so, is there anything special that needs to be done or does the built in data objects already handle the decompression before it is presented to my application.

[mpramodjain]

hi,

Do anybody has used retrieving the GZIP buffer from http server..

Please help about this..

THank u.

[mpramodjain]

Originally Posted by Fontano

During our development, we are using uncompressed REST webservices.
This is fine for development, but we know we are going to have to use gZIP compression to get much better performance.

Has anyone tried accessing a compressed data stream (using GZIP) on the iPhone?

If so, is there anything special that needs to be done or does the built in data objects already handle the decompression before it is presented to my application.

Hi,
The following link contains info, may be useful.
iPhone Development Blog

http://iphonedevelopertips.com/cocoa...zipd-data.html

http://www.bigevilempire.com/codelog...ion-with-gzip/

[NickDalton]

GZIP support is built in from firmware 2.1.

All you need to do is:
NSData *webData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url];

And if the server sends back gzip content with the right headers, then the resulting NSData will contain the uncompressed data.

More information here: Are you testing in both 2.0 and 2.1?