Re: Reducing HTTP payload size [was: RE: HTTP idea

On 11 Jan 2007, at 17:37, David Morris wrote:

> OTOH ... some of the evolving uses of HTTP requests to obtain small  
> bits
> of data to be filled in by client side logic, validate single fields,
> etc., might run much faster with terser HTTP requests ... but then  
> even
> much of that value would be achieved by having browsers aware of
> programatic interactions and optimizing the headers actually  
> needed. But
> in that case, using XML to encode those requests might still negate  
> any
> advantage of smaller protocols.

Wouldn't large sites encode their traffic with gzip (or alternative)  
before sending?

- Nicholas.