tool · inferred from evidence
gzip
A compression tool/format, explicitly mentioned in the context of middleware and response handling.
- quickbooks-ruby suddenly fails creating customers/invoices with a bare `[placeholder]` error
Intuit changed their responses to be gzip-compressed without telling anyone, and the gem's Faraday connection did not always have the gzip middleware registered, so the raw compressed response was parsed as XML and blew up with the cryptic
- fake-gcs-server: invalid character '\x1f' looking for beginning of value from Java client
The Java client sends gzipped request bodies by default, and fake-gcs-server did not decompress them (compressed requests are non-standard and had to be implemented manually). The maintainer fixed the server to handle gzipped request payloa