Does Alamofire by default request for gzipped response?

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I am using Alamofire for networking in my project. As my server support gzipped response. I wanted to know whether Alamofire in itself support gzip or do i need to exclusively set in its header as ["Accept-Encoding":"gzip"]. I tried both the cases and did not find any difference in the size of response. So I was assuming that it requests for gzip response by default. Any light on this topic would be useful.

Also is there a way to check for raw response with Alamofire?

Yes it does automatically. Check out this answer - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30096298/using-swift-to-handle-gzipped-containing-json-http-response — Sasha Kozachuk, Dec 21 '16 at 09:28
possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16423166/afnetworking-enable-gzip — Amanpreet, Dec 21 '16 at 09:37

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 21 '16 at 09:32

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Alamofire handle it by itself, and don't need to do anything... You can find more here: https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire/issues/256

answered Dec 21 '16 at 09:32

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Does Alamofire by default request for gzipped response?

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