How to disable automatic decompression?

[william-silversmith]

Hi all,

I've been experimenting with http2 using async and comparing it with my preexisting http1.1 threaded implementation. I use my own choice of libraries and handling of decompression and would like to disable it in httpx while retaining a response object. What would be the right way to go about that?

Thanks for your help!

PS: For reference, I'm experimenting with seeing how much additional performance I can squeeze out of https://github.com/seung-lab/cloud-files

[tomchristie]

You can use .iter_raw() to iterate over the raw uncompressed byte content.

[william-silversmith]

Thank you Tom! I wrote this which seems to work:

    async def httpx_get_raw(client, path, headers):
      raw = b''
      async with client.stream("GET", path, headers=headers) as resp:
        async for raw_bytes in resp.aiter_raw():
          raw += raw_bytes
      return resp, raw