Handling Zlib::BufError exceptions

[brandonweiss]

I'm intermittently seeing Zlib::BufError exceptions being raised when making requests. I'm not setting an Accept-Encoding header allowing compressed content, so presumably this is caused by a server responding with Content-Encoding regardless, and then Net::HTTP trying to decompress the response which is either malformed or not compressed the in the first place.

I'm not quite sure what to do about that? I don't really care about the response, what I'm after is the status code. I could make a HEAD request, but some servers will just a return a 405 because they don't support it.

Is there anything I can do about this other than switching to a different adapter?

[brandonweiss]

Of course I would finally figure this out minutes after I ask the question. For posterity, setting the Accept-Encoding header to identity will stop Net::HTTP from automatically requesting and/or attempting to inflate a compressed response.

Accept-Encoding: identity