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I'm playing with the oauth2 support in v2-beta with an http client that doesn't support gzip decoding. (My client is http spec compliant but can't deal with the non-compliance of the api on this issue). Am I out of luck?

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Starting in V2, the API will honor deflate Accept-Encodings (it still defaults to GZIP in the absence of an Accept-Encoding). So, if deflate is an option then you've got a work around.

I'm curious as to what client you're using that doesn't support GZIP? That's kind of egregious in 2011.

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I'm using the MarkLogic built-in client, which unfortunately does not support gzip or deflate. I agree it's a bit egregious. – Eric Bloch Dec 7 '11 at 17:05
@Eric: You could use a proxy that supports GZIP - for example, you could have another application running locally that makes the requests and then have your app just send the request to the local proxy. – Nathan Osman♦ Dec 7 '11 at 18:14
@Eric - hmm, reading over that documentation it looks like under some conditions you'll get a binary object back as the second node. If that's the case, is there any way to get a hold of zlib or similar in your app? – Kevin Montrose♦ Dec 7 '11 at 18:18
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Also, I'm glad to here that just plain-old DEFLATE is now supported. Now I can use the API with an unmodified version of Qt, which only provides DEFLATE decompression by default. – Nathan Osman♦ Dec 7 '11 at 20:52
@George - when I try to make a request via an apache proxy, I get the following error: {"error_id":400,"error_name":"bad_parameter","error_message":"site is required"} – Eric Bloch Dec 16 '11 at 23:10
@EricBloch: Are you passing site as a query string parameter? – Nathan Osman♦ Dec 16 '11 at 23:13
@George d'oh thanks, I forgot about that. – Eric Bloch Dec 17 '11 at 1:56

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