[gdal-dev] Bug/feature: OGR VSICURL does not handle gzip compression

[Stefan Gofferje]

Hi,

I'm trying to import traffic situation data in GeoJSON format from the Finnish 
Road Administration at

https://tie.digitraffic.fi/api/v3/data/traffic-messages/simple?
inactiveHours=0&includeAreaGeometry=false&situationType=TRAFFIC_ANNOUNCEMENT

Unfortunately, the server is configured so that it only accepts requests with 
"Accept-encoding: gzip" set - which vsicurl can't/won't handle. It would 
probably generally be useful if vsicurl would offer gzip encoding because most 
servers can handle it and it does save quite a bit of traffic on text-based 
data like GeoJSON.

BR: Stefan

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