HTTParty response body returning compressed GZipped data

[jaypinho]

Using Ruby 3.0.4 and httparty 0.20.0

Here's an example API call:

db_call = HTTParty.patch("https://[MYSUBDOMAIN].supabase.co/rest/v1/streets?street_name=Main", headers: {
    "apikey": ENV['SUPABASE_SECRET_KEY'],
    "Authorization": "Bearer #{ENV['SUPABASE_SECRET_KEY']}",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Prefer": "return=representation"
  }, body: JSON.generate({"street_id": 12345})

puts db_call.response.body # Prints a bunch of gzipped gibberish
sio = StringIO.new( db_call.response.body )
gz = Zlib::GzipReader.new( sio )
puts gz.read() # Prints the actual content

My understanding from the docs is that HTTParty automatically uncompresses gzipped responses as long as I don't explicitly specify an Accept-Encoding request header.

Why is that not happening here?

P.S. FWIW, I just tried a very similar HTTParty POST call (rather than PATCH) and the response came back uncompressed as expected.

[jason-o-matic]

I've run into this for a GET request. In my case the response includes a Range header, which causes Net::HTTP to not un-gzip the response automatically. Ideally I think HTTParty would automatically handle decompression of gzip data when Net::HTTP didn't handle it.