iPhone and GZip
gzip, iphone, nsdata
Solution
If you download something with content type application/x-gzip, the url loading system will not decompress it for you. I think the `data` that you received is still gzip encoded.
You can use my NSData additions to deal with this. See http://github.com/st3fan/cocoa-utils/blob/master/src/NSDataGZipAdditions.m
Problem
Now I know that xCode automaticly does the GZip decrompession for you within: ``` NSData *data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:URL]; ``` And it does work if I point to a Gzip file on my server. But since my content is dynamic, I have a PHP script that rather then create a gzip file like so: ``` $zp = gzopen($file, "r"); $data = gzread($zp, $filesize); gzclose($zp); ``` I encode my own data with: ``` echo gzencode($data, 9); ``` With this I add the following headers: ``` header("Content-Type: application/x-gzip"); header("Content-Encoding: gzip"); header("Accepts-Encoding: gzip"); ``` When I browse to the URL, my browser wants to download the file automatically and I am able to unzip it on my Mac and view it's content. However when I try to read it through xCode it won't work. ``` NSData *data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:URL]; NSString *content = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]; NSLog (content); //returns only data when pointed directly to a Gzip file ``` Am I forgetting something?