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Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r113822: Add a test for decompressing gzipped da


From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r113822: Add a test for decompressing gzipped data
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 18:30:41 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> But you assume that whoever needs this test needs it only for calling
> zlib-decompress-region.  What if there's some feature based on zlib
> that entirely makes no sense if zlib is not available?

You're right -- url-http sends "Accept-Encoding: gzip" if gzip decoding
is available.  So we need -available-p.

> Trying to decompress a file just to discover this sounds gross to me.

I agree totally.

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