Support compressed streams in the HTTP API

[jacobsantos]

Some of the transports support decompressed compressed data, while the others do not. The ticket establishes that all transports will support decompressed data that was sent over HTTP.

I think the PclZip library can be used, but it will require testing to be sure.

[DD32]

Ideally PclZip() should be avoided at all costs if there is an alternate decompression function available, Simply for the fact it does everything in PHP rather than Compiled C++, and Compression functions are better optimized in such a language.

See: ​http://au.php.net/manual/en/function.gzuncompress.php ​http://au.php.net/manual/en/function.gzdecode.php

[jacobsantos]

Add Gzip support to the HTTP API.

[jacobsantos]

The patch implements Gzip classes, but isn't used in the HTTP API anywhere.

[jacobsantos]

Well, after thinking about and talking to DD32, a better solution would be to use one class instead. Still needs testing though.

[jacobsantos]

Better and complete implementation of gzip.

[jacobsantos]

Patch needs testing. Need to see if the patch works for those having issues.

[westi]

(In [10410]) First pass compression support for the HTTP API. See #8674 props jacobsantos.

[jacobsantos]

I'm going to say that this works, since it has been tested and appears to work okay. Any problems can be patched in a new ticket.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

See #9761 in particular