- From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:09:31 +0100
- To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Cc: "'HTTP Working Group'" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 12:38:38AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.1201271344120.4469@egate.xpasc.com>, David Morris wri > tes: > > >I talked with a hardware vendor yesterday who had implemented an HTTP > >server and client (and other stuff) in 128KB of ram in a special device. > > > >Adding mandatory zlib support would kill his product. > > No it would not. A NULL implementation of ZLIB is virtually no code > (and obviously gives no compression...) You can't decompress with no code, and if you need to decompress to parse headers, that's an issue. I must say I'm still worried with having to support zlib just in order to be able parse transport headers ! Willy
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