hey folks, does ktor provide some client-side compression out of the box? <KTOR-1199> makes me think...

# ktor

[Nikolay Kasyanov]

hey folks, does ktor provide some client-side compression out of the box? KTOR-1199 makes me think it does not 😞

[Dominaezzz]

Yes but not on kotlin native.

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

You can use the ContentEncoding plugin for decompressing a response body. To compress a request body you can use the GZIPOutputStream.

[Nikolay Kasyanov]

@Aleksei Tirman [JB] thanks for chiming in. Unfortunately (for this specific case) we do multiplatform so we’d have to implement it ourselves 🤔

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

That's sad.