""" Utility functions for decoding response bodies. """ import cStringIO import gzip, zlib __ALL__ = ["ENCODINGS"] ENCODINGS = set(["identity", "gzip", "deflate"]) def decode(encoding, content): encoding_map = { "identity": decode_identity, "gzip": decode_gzip, "deflate": decode_deflate, } return encoding_map.get(encoding, decode_identity)(content) def decode_identity(content): """ Returns content unchanged. Identity is the default value of Accept-Encoding headers. """ return content def decode_gzip(content): gfile = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=cStringIO.StringIO(content)) return gfile.read() def decode_deflate(content): """ Returns decompress data for DEFLATE. Some servers may respond with compressed data without a zlib header or checksum. An undocumented feature of zlib permits the lenient decompression of data missing both values. http://bugs.python.org/issue5784 """ try: return zlib.decompress(content) except zlib.error: return zlib.decompress(content, -15)