google-drive-api

Google suggests enabling gzip compression before transferring files over the network:

In order to receive a gzip-encoded response you must do two things: Set an Accept-Encoding header, and modify your user agent to contain the string gzip. Here is an example of properly formed HTTP headers for enabling gzip compression:

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The authentication step that produces the link to follow in a browser to authenticate gdfa uses a callback URI. The port that it listens to seems to be random each time the service is started. Could that be standardized, or is there a way to predict what port it will listen to?