October 2012 Archives

Testing for HTTP compression

How do I determine what the content-encoding of a web page is? A simple question which after doing a little searching did not turn up a simple answer. A stackoverflow question lead me to the solution but did not answer the question directly so here I am writing it up. We will need to install these modules first:


cpan Compress::Zlib LWP::UserAgent

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user-pic I like writing Perl code and since most of it is open source I might as well talk about it too. @KirkKimmel on twitter