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authordrbrain <drbrain@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2012-07-19 22:43:38 +0000
committerdrbrain <drbrain@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2012-07-19 22:43:38 +0000
commitb1a0509b5465ce77f52e0384159237889a8d60ec (patch)
treeea22ccb90a2367364e0c740f15ad571558b025f4 /lib/net/http/request.rb
parentef19dcf96dd2e84c4fe0a46888a5afd0cd457f80 (diff)
* lib/net/http/response.rb: Automatically inflate gzip and
deflate-encoded response bodies. [Feature #6942] * lib/net/http/generic_request.rb: Automatically accept gzip and deflate content-encoding for requests. [Feature #6494] * lib/net/http/request.rb: Updated documentation for #6494. * lib/net/http.rb: Updated documentation for #6492 and #6494, removed Content-Encoding handling now present in Net::HTTPResponse. * test/net/http/test_httpresponse.rb: Tests for #6492 * test/net/http/test_http_request.rb: Tests for #6494 * test/open-uri/test_open-uri.rb (test_content_encoding): Updated test for automatic content-encoding handling. git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@36473 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
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diff --git a/lib/net/http/request.rb b/lib/net/http/request.rb
index c5a6c102af..e8b0f48fcc 100644
--- a/lib/net/http/request.rb
+++ b/lib/net/http/request.rb
@@ -4,7 +4,12 @@
# subclasses: Net::HTTP::Get, Net::HTTP::Post, Net::HTTP::Head.
#
class Net::HTTPRequest < Net::HTTPGenericRequest
- # Creates HTTP request object.
+ # Creates an HTTP request object for +path+.
+ #
+ # +initheader+ are the default headers to use. Net::HTTP adds
+ # Accept-Encoding to enable compression of the response body unless
+ # Accept-Encoding or Range are supplied in +initheader+.
+
def initialize(path, initheader = nil)
super self.class::METHOD,
self.class::REQUEST_HAS_BODY,