Originally published on my blog
Not a full and long article, but a hacking recipe to process incoming Gzipped requests. This example is with FastAPI, but could be used as well with Starlette applications.
from fastapi import FastAPI from starlette.types import Message from starlette.requests import Request from starlette.middleware.base import BaseHTTPMiddleware import gzip class GZipedMiddleware(BaseHTTPMiddleware): async def set_body(self, request: Request): receive_ = await request._receive() if "gzip" in request.headers.getlist("Content-Encoding"): print(receive_) data = gzip.decompress(receive_.get('body')) receive_['body'] = data async def receive() -> Message: return receive_ request._receive = receive async def dispatch(self, request, call_next): await self.set_body(request) response = await call_next(request) return response app = FastAPI() app.add_middleware(GZipedMiddleware) @app.post("/post") async def post(req: Request): body = await req.body() # I decode here, assuming that I just compressed # a text file, in other use case you should use # the appropiate decoder. return body.decode("utf-8") 
Top comments (2)
Isn't this already baked in with
from starlette.middleware.gzip import GZipMiddleware?It is there. Gealber showed us how it worked internally.