You spoke, and the .NET engineering teams listened. Two weeks ago, Microsoft published a beta of HttpClient that provides support for automatic decompression. The team received a fair bit of feedback, particularly around the fact that it relies on a native implementation of compression that isn’t available on the same platforms as HttpClient. Today, it published another beta of HttpClient to address those concerns.
As a result of the update, the new version of HttpClient no longer depends on Microsoft.Bcl.Compression, and automatic decompression is now supported on all platforms and also allows the application to remain in the AnyCPU architecture.
For all the details on the implementation and how the team enabled decompression in HttpClient, check out the .NET Framework Blog.
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Jennifer Warnick
Microsoft News Center Staff