Re: current HTTP/2 spec prevents gzip of response to "Range" request from Zhong Yu on 2014-03-24 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from January to March 2014)

From: Zhong Yu <zhong.j.yu@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:39:48 -0500
To: K.Morgan@iaea.org
Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CACuKZqH+TxXVN0H=7RZQOX_DiF4RwdVK-fDYk=vbRADtmOdh2w@mail.gmail.com>

> Also, multipart/byteranges may carry a gzip-ed range, though
> multipart/byteranges is probably not well supported.

I take it back - not sure about the semantics if a part in a
multipart/byteranges contains header "Content-Encoding: gzip". It'll
probably be ignored by most implementation.

Zhong Yu

Received on Monday, 24 March 2014 15:40:16 UTC