Generally speaking, LWP does not care about the actual content or format, it simply passes on to the web server what kind of content encoding you are willing to accept, in the form of properly formatted request headers.

The web server should pay attention to this and either send data in an appropriate format/encoding (as indicated by the response headers) or inform you that it can't comply with your requirements. You may request documents in 9 bit Morse encoding compressed with a proprietary Javascript library but the server is free to say no. What the server should not do is send you data in an imaginary format when you clearly stated what you were willing to accept.

LWP has some convenience features that can help you with decoding of some common well-known encoding types but other than that you are free to take the binary content and decode it any way you like, which hopefully matches what the server indicated.

In this particular case, you may want to look at modules that deal with MIME content unless I'm very much mistaken.

-- FloydATC

Time flies when you don't know what you're doing

In reply to Re: Perl LWP Can handle client-transfer-encoding = chunked encoding? by FloydATC
in thread Perl LWP Can handle client-transfer-encoding = chunked encoding? by sam_bakki

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