From d0a5d9f13104c14c076323ea186a1e8e2f452457 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Darshit Shah <darnir@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 10:41:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Switch off compression by default
Gzip compression has a number of bugs which need to be ironed out before
we can support it by default. Some of these stem from a misunderstanding
of the HTTP spec, but a lot of them are also due to many web servers not
being compliant with RFC 7231.
With this commit, I am marking GZip compression support as experimental
in GNU Wget pending further investigation and the addition of tests.
* src/init.c (defaults): Switch of compression support by default
* docs/wget.texi: State that compression is experimental
---
doc/wget.texi | 7 +++++--
src/init.c | 2 +-
src/main.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/wget.texi b/doc/wget.texi
index 3ec609f9..0aa7b435 100644
--- a/doc/wget.texi
+++ b/doc/wget.texi
@@ -1543,10 +1543,13 @@ If @samp{auto} or @samp{gzip} are specified, Wget asks the server to
compress the file using the gzip compression format. If the server
compresses the file and responds with the @code{Content-Encoding}
header field set appropriately, the file will be decompressed
-automatically. This is the default.
+automatically.
If @samp{none} is specified, wget will not ask the server to compress
-the file and will not decompress any server responses.
+the file and will not decompress any server responses. This is the default.
+
+Compression support is currently experimental. In case it is turned on,
+please report any bugs to @code{bug-wget@gnu.org}.
@cindex redirect
@item --max-redirect=@var{number}
diff --git a/src/init.c b/src/init.c
index 5c6fb7d7..6807e361 100644
--- a/src/init.c
+++ b/src/init.c
@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ defaults (void)
#endif
#ifdef HAVE_LIBZ
- opt.compression = compression_auto;
+ opt.compression = compression_none;
#endif
/* The default for file name restriction defaults to the OS type. */
diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index 8382ab02..d19437e0 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ HTTP options:\n"),
--header=STRING insert STRING among the headers\n"),
#ifdef HAVE_LIBZ
N_("\
- --compression=TYPE choose compression, one of auto, gzip and none\n"),
+ --compression=TYPE choose compression, one of auto, gzip and none. (default: none)\n"),
#endif
N_("\
--max-redirect maximum redirections allowed per page\n"),