inflation

inflation

Automatically unzip an HTTP stream.

API

var inflate = require('inflation')

inflate(stream, options)

Returns a stream that emits inflated data from the given stream.

Options:

• encoding - The encoding of the stream (gzip or deflate). If not given, will look in stream.headers['content-encoding'].
• brotli - BrotliOptions to use for Brotli decompression

Example

var inflate = require('inflation')
var raw     = require('raw-body')

http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  raw(inflate(req), 'utf-8', function (err, string) {
    console.dir(string)
  })
})

Contributors

dougwilson	bminer	fengmk2

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