http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/73 As most of you know our definition of deflate is somewhat contradictory with the referenced RFCs definitions, as is already stated in our definition: deflate The "zlib" format defined in RFC 1950 [31] in combination with the "deflate" compression mechanism described in RFC 1951 [29]. As result of this inconsistent name selection there is several implementations that implement "deflate" to literally mean the deflate encoding without the zlib wrapper. Proposed solution is to add a note on this fact Note that some incorrect implementations may send deflate encoding without a zlib wrapper when using this encoding. On a related note I should perhaps also remind you that gzip is actually also deflate but with a gzip wrapper instead of zlib. To be consistent or "deflate" term should really had been "zlib". And both are well defined file format which also happens to be the same name of the application/library creating the format in question. Regards HenrikReceived on Wednesday, 29 July 2009 13:37:46 GMT
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