GzipHttpCompressor

Compresses request bodies using gzip.

Uses the standard library gzip module. No extra dependencies required.

Hierarchy

• HttpCompressor
  • GzipHttpCompressor

Index

Methods

• __init__
• compress

Properties

• content_encoding

Methods

__init__

• __init__(*, quality): None

• Initialize the gzip compressor.

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  Parameters

  • optionalkeyword-onlyquality: int = _max_quality

    Compression level, from the fastest to the best compression.

  Returns None

compress

• compress(data): bytes

• Overrides HttpCompressor.compress

  Compress a request body.

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  Parameters

  • data: bytes

    The raw bytes to compress.

  Returns bytes

  The compressed bytes.

Properties

content_encoding

content_encoding: str

Overrides HttpCompressor.content_encoding

Value sent in the Content-Encoding header, for example gzip or br.