HTTP client: Support compression (Content-Encoding: gzip)

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
php
Domain
api, backend

Research direction

Start by tracing the HTTP client’s buffered response handling and the withResponseBuffer() path, then compare the streaming approach with clue/reactphp-zlib. Done means opt-in gzip negotiation and decompression work for buffered responses while respecting withResponseBuffer(), with streaming support addressed as specified.

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Description

help wanted new feature

This library should support requesting compressed responses and automatically decompress using the Accept-Encoding request header and Content-Encoding response header.

This should be an opt-in feature.

Implementing this for buffered requests shouldn't be too hard. This should make sure to also respect the withResponseBuffer() setting.

Implementing this for streaming requests is doable, see also https://github.com/clue/reactphp-zlib.

We welcome contributions, reach out if you want to support this project 👍

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