ensure transport compression is on

open-meteo · Mar 14, 2024 · d0fd1bc · d0fd1bc
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diff --git a/OpenMeteo/OpenMeteo.cs b/OpenMeteo/OpenMeteo.cs
@@ -19,7 +19,10 @@ public OpenMeteoClient(HttpClient client)
 
         public OpenMeteoClient()
         {
-            this.Client = new HttpClient(new RetryHandler(new HttpClientHandler()));
+            HttpClientHandler handler = new HttpClientHandler();
+            handler.AutomaticDecompression = System.Net.DecompressionMethods.Deflate | System.Net.DecompressionMethods.GZip;
+            this.Client = new HttpClient(new RetryHandler(handler));
+            this.Client.DefaultRequestHeaders.TryAddWithoutValidation("Accept-Encoding", "gzip, deflate");
         }
 
         /// <summary>

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -1,2 +1,6 @@
 # dotnet
-.NET bindings to decode Open-Meteo Weather API responses based on FlatBuffers
+.NET bindings to decode Open-Meteo Weather API responses based on FlatBuffers.
+
+This library provides only basic functionality to decode binary FlatBuffers messages to efficiently transfer large amounts of weather data. It does not provide high level abstraction.
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