Easy HTTP requests with gzip/deflate compression

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For anyone coming across this in recent times, the request library supports gzip decompression out of the box now. Use as follows:

request(
    { method: 'GET'
    , uri: 'http://www.google.com'
    , gzip: true
    }
  , function (error, response, body) {
      // body is the decompressed response body
      console.log('server encoded the data as: ' + (response.headers['content-encoding'] || 'identity'))
      console.log('the decoded data is: ' + body)
    }
  )

From the github readme https://github.com/request/request

gzip – If true, add an Accept-Encoding header to request compressed
content encodings from the server (if not already present) and decode
supported content encodings in the response. Note: Automatic decoding
of the response content is performed on the body data returned through
request (both through the request stream and passed to the callback
function) but is not performed on the response stream (available from
the response event) which is the unmodified http.IncomingMessage
object which may contain compressed data. See example below.

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