Re: Support for compression in XHR? from Boris Zbarsky on 2008-09-09 (public-webapps@w3.org from July to September 2008)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:02:44 -0400
To: Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
CC: public-webapps@w3.org
Message-ID: <48C673F4.1090909@mit.edu>

Dominique Hazael-Massieux wrote:
> The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group is interested to know
> whether XmlHTTPRequest has any actual or planned support for compression

HTTP has Content-Encoding and Transfer-Encoding, no?  No special effort 
on the part of XMLHttpRequest is needed to make use of those, as long as 
the underlying HTTP implementation supports them.

-Boris

Received on Tuesday, 9 September 2008 13:13:01 UTC