h2#404 requiring gzip and/or deflate

• From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:14:57 -0800
• To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <CABkgnnXAw-UkYTG_1zdm70WgLCdSq4Br_sSuyCLR3gQs4ZQ-0w@mail.gmail.com>

Mark raises a point on which the spec is a little vague:

https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/issues/404
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9.3 GZip Content-Encoding says:

Clients MUST support gzip compression for HTTP request bodies.
Regardless of the value of the accept-encoding header field, a server
MAY send responses with gzip or deflate encoding.

... Is it both gzip and deflate (which last I checked, some clients
don't support)? If so, the first sentence and section title should be
changed to reflect this.
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I think that this is largely inherited from SPDY, but I get the sense
that there is support for the concept in general.

I want to clarify the text above... Do we want to mandate (i.e., use
MUST) 1. gzip or 2. gzip+deflate ?

Received on Thursday, 20 February 2014 19:15:25 UTC