Summary:
Added Gzip function to RCTUtils. This uses dlopen to load the zlib library at runtime so there's no need to link it into your project.
The main reason for this feature is to support gzipping of HTTP request bodies. Now, if you add 'Content-Encoding:gzip' to your request headers when using XMLHttpRequest, your request body will be automatically gzipped on the native side before sending.
(Note: Gzip decoding of *response* bodies is handled automatically by iOS, and was already available).
Summary:
As discussed with @nicklockwood in the issue https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/1780, the error should be changed to a warning to not break fetch() to send a POST to a remote API without wanting to parse the reply. E.g. google sends back an empty 1x1px gif when POSTing something to google analytics.
Closes https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/1860
Github Author: "philipp.krone" <kronep@googlemail.com>
