Use HTTP compressed encoding when available

This reduces network traffic by about 50%.

diff --git a/src/http/http.c b/src/http/http.c
index bd4069b56d29e2cef8ede34cce13a9a229742a4a..cfbcd356ba800b39e3a1c7e827822516000e7a76 100644 (file)
--- a/src/http/http.c
+++ b/src/http/http.c
@@ -153,6 +153,8 @@ http_easy_init(struct http_handler *handler, curl_off_t ims)
 
        setopt_str(result, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, config_get_http_user_agent());
 
+       setopt_str(result, CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING, "");
+
        setopt_long(result, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
        setopt_long(result, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, config_get_max_redirs());