- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 16:10:14 +0100
- To: Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
- Cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, public-webapps@w3.org
On 9 Sep 2008, at 14:58, Dominique Hazael-Massieux wrote: > > Le mardi 09 septembre 2008 à 09:02 -0400, Boris Zbarsky a écrit : >> 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. > > Well, at least when an outgoing XmlHttpRequest goes with a body, the > spec could require that upon setting the Content-Encoding header to > "gzip" or "deflate", that the body be adequately transformed. Or is > there another e.g. to POST a gzip request with Content-Encoding? Why can it not just be added transparently by the XHR implementation? -- Geoffrey Sneddon <http://gsnedders.com/>
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