NSURLConnection with Accept-Encoding: gzip

For quite some time I ranted about not being able to use compressed network communcation out-of-the-box on the iPhone.

Despite being undocumented (or I just overlooked the hint), NSURLConnection does gzip decompression transparently!

That’s how to use it:

NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url
cachePolicy:NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringLocalCacheData
timeoutInterval:60.0];
// set explicitly:
[request setValue:@"gzip" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Accept-Encoding"];

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