[vlc-devel] [PATCH] vlc_stream/http: add GET_CONTENT_ENCODING

[Francois Cartegnie]

Le 06/07/2017 à 19:56, Rémi Denis-Courmont a écrit :

> Specifically, you cannot distinguish between a resource whose only 
> representation is in compresssed form, and a resource that has both compressed 
> and uncompressed representation. Some servers expose both cases in the same 
> way, with the Content-Encoding header (or not).

If we could explicitly request identity the server would not return
compressed coding. stream_Url now returns an unexpected encoding to the
user.

Compressed coding of already compressed content being also possible.

Francois