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Rack Middleware to automatically unzip gzipped/deflated POST data
class CompressedRequests
def initialize(app)
@app = app
end
def method_handled?(env)
!!(env['REQUEST_METHOD'] =~ /(POST|PUT)/)
end
def encoding_handled?(env)
['gzip', 'deflate'].include? env['HTTP_CONTENT_ENCODING']
end
def call(env)
if method_handled?(env) && encoding_handled?(env)
extracted = decode(env['rack.input'], env['HTTP_CONTENT_ENCODING'])
env.delete('HTTP_CONTENT_ENCODING')
env['CONTENT_LENGTH'] = extracted.bytesize
env['rack.input'] = StringIO.new(extracted)
end
status, headers, response = @app.call(env)
return [status, headers, response]
end
def decode(input, content_encoding)
case content_encoding
when 'gzip' then Zlib::GzipReader.new(input).read
when 'deflate' then Zlib::Inflate.inflate(input.read)
end
end
end
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bayleedev commented Jan 27, 2021

-    status, headers, response = @app.call(env)
-    return [status, headers, response]
+    @app.call(env)

had a similar effect 💚

Used an index in insert_before which worked in rails 5 in all envs.

    config.middleware.insert_before 0, CompressedRequests

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