[LIBCLOUD-146] Add support for handling compressed responses

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.0
• Component/s: Core
• Labels: compress core gzip http httplib
• Assignee: Tomaz Muraus
• Reporter: Tomaz Muraus
• Created: 01/Feb/12 22:57
• Updated: 09/Feb/12 02:05
• Resolved: 09/Feb/12 02:05

Description

Python doesn't support transparently deflating the responses which means we need to add some code to handle that.

The code should also work with all the supported Python versions.