Provide a means to disable automatic HTTP content decoding

Originator:john.firebaugh
Number:rdar://25180768 Date Originated:15-Mar-2016
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:iOS SDK Product Version:
Classification: Reproducible:
 
Cocoa networking APIs should provide a means to disable automatic content decoding of responses with a Content-Encoding: gzip header.

This is a feature provided by other major networking libraries, such as libcurl and OkHttp, and it is essential for acceptable performance of certain use cases, e.g. downloading a compressed representation of a resource to disk.

A private API exists to accomplish this (_CFURLRequestSetProtocolProperty + kCFURLRequestDoNotDecodeData); please consider making it public.

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