[jira] [Commented] (CB-1517) FileTransfer.download progress events has this.lengthComputable = false when response is gzipped

["Ian Clelland (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Ian Clelland commented on CB-1517:
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First pull request: download() now understands GZIP content-encoding, and properly tracks the number of bytes read.

https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/pull/36

Also see https://github.com/apache/cordova-mobile-spec/pull/14
                
> FileTransfer.download progress events has this.lengthComputable = false when response is gzipped
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>
>                 Key: CB-1517
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-1517
>             Project: Apache Cordova
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Android
>    Affects Versions: 2.2.0
>            Reporter: Andrew Grieve
>            Assignee: Ian Clelland
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Gzip does not happen automatically on older version (pre-froyo I think). And on newer version it happens transparently. If we set the accept-encoding:gzip header ourselves on the connection, then it will not do the transparent handling of gzip, and we need to deflate it ourselves. 
> This means that we can set the header manually, and then do as the following article says to track the progress:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12124534/monitor-gzip-download-progress-in-java

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