ATProto/api — actor.GetProfiles suddenly defaulting to gzip output

[scarnecchia]

Until this morning, calls to actor.getprofiles that did not specify accept-encoding were returning plaintext. This morning, they began returning gzipped data.

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. In bash, define a list of 25 dids as params (actor=did…&actor=did…)
2. Call:

curl -v "https://blewit.us-west.host.bsky.network/xrpc/app.bsky.actor.getProfiles?$params" \
        -H "authorization: Bearer $accessJwt" \
        -H 'accept: application/json' -o "$tmp_body" 2> "$tmp_headers"

Expected behavior

Calls that don't specify accept-identity: gzip will not return gzipped data.

Details

• Operating system: Ubuntu 22.04

Additional context

Calling the following returns plaintext.

curl -v "https://blewit.us-west.host.bsky.network/xrpc/app.bsky.actor.getProfiles?$params" \
        -H "authorization: Bearer $accessJwt" \
        -H 'accept-encoding: identity' -o "$tmp_body" 2> "$tmp_headers"

[scarnecchia]

Possibly a feature resulting from optimizations in #2770 but will let the dev team decide if they want to close based on this: https://bsky.app/profile/dholms.xyz/post/3l4yrpshkhc2c