Re: Compressing HTML
Larry Masinter (masinter@parc.xerox.com)
Wed, 10 Sep 1997 23:30:04 PDT
Message-ID: <34178FEC.BB038623@parc.xerox.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 23:30:04 PDT
From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
To: Andrew Daviel <advax@triumf.ca>
CC: Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com>, www-html@w3.org,
Subject: Re: Compressing HTML
On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
> "Compress" is not a standard, and uses the patented LZW algorithm.
> GZIP is the only compressed encoding both patent-free and specified
> in an RFC (an informational RFC rather than an official standard, but
> better than nothing). The GZIP program suffers from the GPL, but the
> GZIP encoding standard does not--the format is public domain.
but this is false, since RFC 2068 defines "deflate":
#deflate The "zlib" format defined in RFC 1950[31] in combination with
# the "deflate" compression mechanism described in RFC 1951[29].
and hopefully HTTP/1.1 servers will support even on-the-fly compression
and HTTP/1.1 clients will use accept-encoding to allow compressed file
transfers.
Larry
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