[gdal-dev] WFS and HTTP compression

[Even Rouault]

Le vendredi 22 mars 2013 22:12:51, Jeremy Palmer a écrit :
> Hi All,
> 
> I've being doing some bandwidth analysis when using GDAL/OGR trunk with a
> Geoserver WFS 1.1.0 server. I've found that gzip HTTP compression is not
> used when requesting the data in the GML2 and GML3 output format if
> OGR_WFS_USE_STREAMING is set to YES. However when requesting the GeoJSON
> output format (regardless of the OGR_WFS_USE_STREAMING setting) it is
> using HTTP gzip compression.
> 
> Is there a reason why HTTP compression is not used for GML when streaming
> is enabled?

Because it doesn't take the same code path (GML uses /vsicurl_steaming/ while 
other output formats use CPLHttpFetch() that downloads the whole file into 
memory and then parses it). I've just added GZip compression request in 
/vsicurl_streaming/ (can be turned off by setting CPL_CURL_GZIP to NO)

> 
> Thanks,
> Jeremy
> 
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