REST API: Add compression to REST API (#1390) #1394
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This merges the changes from #1390 into the hotfix branch. I've done this via a separate PR because it was easier than changing the base of the previous PR and resolving a bunch of merge conflicts.
Here's a copy of the description of the other PR for reference:
Summary
In order to more easily support returning responses for blocks containing large numbers of transactions, we're adding gzip compression as an available response content encoding.
In order to have a response gzip'd (limited in this PR only to the
/v2/block/
endpoint) clients can provide the header:For example, in the go-algorand-sdk, you could use the following code to retrieve a compressed block:
See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Accept-Encoding for more details on the
Accept-Encoding
header.Test Plan
Added tests for compressed responses from /v2/blocks.