NAME

       WWW::Mechanize::GZip - tries to fetch webpages with gzip-compression

VERSION

       Version 0.10

SYNOPSIS

           use WWW::Mechanize::GZip;

           my $mech = WWW::Mechanize::GZip->new();
           my $response = $mech->get( $url );

           print "x-content-length (before unzip) = ", $response->header('x-content-length');
           print "content-length (after unzip) = ", $response->header('content-length');

DESCRIPTION

       The WWW::Mechanize::GZip module tries to fetch a URL by requesting gzip-compression from
       the webserver.

       If the response contains a header with 'Content-Encoding: gzip', it decompresses the
       response in order to get the original (uncompressed) content.

       This module will help to reduce bandwith fetching webpages, if supported by the
       webeserver. If the webserver does not support gzip-compression, no decompression will be
       made.

       This modules is a direct subclass of WWW::Mechanize and will therefore support any methods
       provided by WWW::Mechanize.

       The decompression is handled by Compress::Zlib::memGunzip.

       There is a small webform, you can instantly test, whether a webserver supports gzip-
       compression on a particular URL: <http://www.computerhandlung.de/www-mechanize-gzip.htm>

   METHODS
       prepare_request
         Adds 'Accept-Encoding' => 'gzip' to outgoing HTTP-headers before sending.

       send_request
         Unzips response-body if 'content-encoding' is 'gzip' and corrects 'content-length' to
         unzipped content-length.

SEE ALSO

       WWW::Mechanize

       Compress::Zlib

AUTHOR

       Peter Giessner "cardb@planet-elektronik.de"

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2007, Peter Giessner "cardb@planet-elektronik.de".  All rights reserved.

       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.