Use gzip when talking to the API

CHANGES

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 * Deprecated the `setFormat` method in favor of directly setting the `format` attribute.
 * Deprecated the `setVersion` method in favor of directly setting the `version` attribute.
 * Deprecated the `setTimeout` method in favor of directly setting the `timeout` attribute.
+* Request gzipped responses from API.
 
 0.4.1
 

disqusapi/__init__.py

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
     __version__ = 'unknown'
 
 import re
+import zlib
 import os.path
 import warnings
 import socket
@@ -174,7 +175,8 @@ def _request(self, endpoint=None, **kwargs):
                 params.append((k, v))
 
         headers = {
-            'User-Agent': 'disqus-python/%s' % __version__
+            'User-Agent': 'disqus-python/%s' % __version__,
+            'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip',
         }
 
         if method == 'GET':
@@ -194,6 +196,10 @@ def _request(self, endpoint=None, **kwargs):
             # Close connection
             conn.close()
 
+        if response.getheader('Content-Encoding') == 'gzip':
+            # See: http://stackoverflow.com/a/2424549
+            body = zlib.decompress(body, 16 + zlib.MAX_WBITS)
+
         # Determine the encoding of the response and respect
         # the Content-Type header, but default back to utf-8
         content_type = response.getheader('Content-Type')