decode_content removes header

[phmLabs]

When using the decode_content option the "Content-Encoding" header is removed.

Is it possible to get the header to check if the content was gzipped?

[mtdowling]

Are you using the curl or streamhandler? Do you know if the behavior between the two is different? If curl isn't removing the header, but the StreamHandler is, then I'd be open to stopping this behavior in the StreamHandler.

[phmLabs]

It seems to be this line:

unset($headers[$normalizedKeys['content-encoding']]);

in

https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle/blob/master/src/Handler/StreamHandler.php

[jeskew]

The cURL handler will also remove the Content-Encoding header when decode_content is set to true.

[mtdowling]

It should be noted that others have requested the opposite of what is being proposed in this issue: #1075

[jeskew]

This was addressed in #1409. Guzzle will add headers containing the original content encoding (x-encoded-content-encoding) and original content length (x-encoded-content-length) and continue removing the content-encoding header and updating the content-length header with the length of the decoded body.