Some code to check for gzip compression on an HTTP host

gzip_test.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import httplib
from pprint import pprint

if __name__ == "__main__":
    url = "/"
    #url = '/static/css/style.css'
    conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('127.0.0.1')
    conn.putrequest("GET", url, skip_host=True)
    print "Requesting %s ..." % url
    conn.putheader('Accept-encoding', 'gzip, deflate')
    conn.putheader('Host', 'local.djangozoom.com')
    conn.putheader('User-Agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0')
# Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
# Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
# Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
# Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7

    conn.endheaders()
    res = conn.getresponse()
    res_src = res.read()
    pprint(res.status)
    pprint(res.getheaders())
    print "Response Gzipped? %s" % str(
        res.getheader('content-encoding') == 'gzip')