- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 23:30:04 PDT
- To: Andrew Daviel <advax@triumf.ca>
- Cc: Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com>, www-html@w3.org, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
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 -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter
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