Gzip compression

Request and responses negotiated with the HERE Batch API v7 can be compressed in gzip format. You are strongly encouraged to use this option to reduce the file size and thus significantly improve performance and responsiveness in your application.

Requests

You can send a gzip-compressed input file to the service by setting the Content-Encoding header to gzip.

Mismatched content and Content-Encoding will result in an error.

Responses

You can request gzip-compressed responses by setting the standard Accept-Encoding header to gzip.

When the response is gzip compressed, the value of the Content-Encoding response header is set to gzip.

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Note

Please note that the Content-Encodingand Accept-Encoding header do not affect the Content-Type header. This stays the same whether the body is gzip encoded or not.