decompress compressed data

[Cuteistfox]

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Enhancement request

decompress compressed data (not just gzip)

checklist

• decompress gzip(use zcat)
• decompreess xz
• decompress some other formats i forgot

[MayukhSobo]

Hi @meow-purr I wanted to understand more about this issue as I was interested to work on this issue. Do you want the incoming request from a server to get decompressed and show or while sending the request, it needs to be decompressed? If the response is not decompressed, how does it look like currently using httpie when compressed data is sent from a http server?

[Cuteistfox]

for a tarball of linux kernal
`https https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/snapshot/linux-6.4-rc7.tar.gz
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Disposition: inline; filename="linux-6.4-rc7.tar.gz"
Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self'; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; script-src-attr 'unsafe-hashes' 'sha256-rQQdnklrOmulrf5mQ2YjUK7CGbu4ywAi21E8nGlJcDc'; img-src https:
Content-Type: application/x-gzip; charset=UTF-8
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2023 17:36:39 GMT
ETag: "be10b9a5f6c20252039731efda7f268e57fb5dd3"
Expires: Thu, 22 Jun 2023 18:36:04 GMT
Last-Modified: Thu, 22 Jun 2023 17:36:04 GMT
Referrer-Policy: same-origin
Server: nginx
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=15768001
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-Frame-Options: DENY

+-----------------------------------------+
| NOTE: binary data not shown in terminal |
+-----------------------------------------+

`

and i can loop it through zcat
https https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/snapshot/linux-6.4-rc7.tar.gz | zcat
and get something so large it would be spam if i posted it here
which is the entire code of linux
or

[Cuteistfox]

tarball is not unarchived

[Cuteistfox]

but just u=in text reprsentation

[MayukhSobo]

Can you please format your comments? It is actually hard to understand. From the looks of it, it seems that you need the file to display which was gzipped and sent during the request.

1. Is the above assumption is true?
2. Is there any specific scenario that you can explain where you need to display the downloaded file on the terminal. Because generally we download the file and use it normally.
3. Do you want to download the file instead of displaying the contents?
4. If no, then are you planning to display all the content like linux kenel on the terminal?
5. Finally, Is there any other use cases apart from compressed file content display?

[MayukhSobo]

Can you please format your comments? It is actually hard to understand. From the looks of it, it seems that you need the file to display which was gzipped and sent during the request.

1. Is the above assumption is true?
2. Is there any specific scenario that you can explain where you need to display the downloaded file on the terminal. Because generally we download the file and use it normally.
3. Do you want to download the file instead of displaying the contents?
4. If no, then are you planning to display all the content like linux kenel on the terminal?
5. Finally, Is there any other use cases apart from compressed file content display?

[Cuteistfox]

1. yes
2. why not
3. no
4. yes
5. yes

[MayukhSobo]

@meow-purr Can you please elaborate the last point?

[Cuteistfox]

simplicity of savibg fieles uncompressed

[Cuteistfox]

without having a long stream of pipes or briefly having compressed data stored(even if in /tmp)