- From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
- Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 16:10:10 +0100
- To: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
- Cc: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > Both gzip & deflate (zlib) is self delimiting and checksummed by the > way, giving you this property. Are you sure? Concatenating gzip files (.gz) is allowed: when decompressed it results in the concatenation of the decompressed parts. Therefore gzip _files_ aren't self delimiting. I don't know if gzip-as-referenced-by-HTTP allows that, but given that gzip files can, it would be inadvisable for the network protocol to be different and depend on that difference. -- Jamie
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