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Diffstat (limited to 'src/webob/response.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/webob/response.py | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/webob/response.py b/src/webob/response.py index e02de87..51d6c89 100644 --- a/src/webob/response.py +++ b/src/webob/response.py @@ -1322,8 +1322,15 @@ class Response: self.content_encoding = None gzip_f.close() else: - # Weird feature: http://bugs.python.org/issue5784 - self.body = zlib.decompress(self.body, -15) + try: + # RFC7230 section 4.2.2 specifies that the body should be wrapped + # inside a ZLIB (RFC1950) container ... + self.body = zlib.decompress(self.body) + except zlib.error: + # ... but there are nonconformant implementations around which send + # the data without the ZLIB container, so we use maximum window size + # decompression without header check (the - sign) + self.body = zlib.decompress(self.body, -15) self.content_encoding = None def md5_etag(self, body=None, set_content_md5=False): |