This however is insensible as the default settings have 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpcompression.HttpCompressionMiddleware': 590, which means that a custom response_is_ban(self, request, response) implementation receives a gzipped response and response.css('whatever') leads to exceptions.
In your
README
you recommend settingThis however is insensible as the default settings have
'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpcompression.HttpCompressionMiddleware': 590,
which means that a customresponse_is_ban(self, request, response)
implementation receives a gzipped response andresponse.css('whatever')
leads to exceptions.To avoid that, something like
makes more sense.