[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #36280: HTTP API (Streams backend) secured proxy tunnels and chunked and zlib on the fly streaming

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#36280: HTTP API (Streams backend) secured proxy tunnels and chunked and zlib on
the fly streaming
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 Reporter:  bobbywalters  |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  HTTP API      |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                |     Focuses:
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Comment (by dd32):

 Two initial things that stand out:

 > Using the PHP builtin stream filter 'dechunk'
 That's available in PHP 5.3 and later, as we're still supporting PHP 5.2
 that should have a feature check first.

 > Any content encoding handled by zlib is now done with the stream filter
 'zlib.inflate' to handle on the fly decompression.
 Not always available, and once again needs to have a capability check on
 it.

 Theoretically servers shouldn't respond with Chunked encoding if we don't
 ask for it, nor should they supply compressed content we haven't specified
 we can understand, so both of these shouldn't be an issue.

 Note that #33055 is a proposal (which I believe most of us are behind) to
 deprecate and remove WP_HTTP in preference for a  more fleshed out
 library.

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