Re: Range Requests vs Content Codings

On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 11:34 AM,  <K.Morgan@iaea.org> wrote:
> We have rapidly growing append-only files.  Currently we use gzip Transfer-Encoding to compress an identity range request.  But since T-E went away (again) in h2, it's no longer possible.

damn it... I just implemented the feature on my server. another fool's errand.

http://bayou.io/release/0.9/javadoc/bayou/http/HttpServerConf.html#autoGzip-boolean-

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> I realize it's a controversial issue, but if I understand correctly, h2 is supposed to replace *everything* you could do in 1.1.
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> As far as I can tell, there are four solutions for maintaining this capability...
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> 1. Julian's bbcc
> 2. Matthew's DATA frame compression - possibly as an extension now that it was removed from the main spec.
> 3. My & Christoph's Message-Encoding HTTP extension (an end-to-end version of T-E that is applied after C-E, but before T-E)
> 4. Keep T-E in h2 (I dare say nobody wants this solution)
>
>
> [1] http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Google-to-pay-Firefox-almost-1-billion-dollars-in--30172517.html
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