- From: Fred Douglis <douglis@research.att.com>
- Date: Sun, 04 Jan 1998 12:49:01 -0500
- To: barog <barog@globalnet.co.uk>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
>What discussions of compression has their been? Will a simple compression >algorithm be implemented into HTTP (only as an option, so that slower >clients can choose not to retrieve compressed data).. The data could be >compressed already, and sent out in this form... Also an uncompressed >version could still be stored to send to the slower clients (who couldn't >decompress realtime). There were two papers in SIGCOMM'97 that discussed the benefits of compressing HTTP data. An internet draft to describe protocol support for both compression and delta-encoding (a form of compression that uses state from a previous version of a resource) is in preparation. Jeff Mogul, of DECWRL, is the primary "instigator" on this. Fred Douglis <http://www.research.att.com/~douglis/> ----------------------------------------------------------------- PGP Fingerprint: 83 B9 D6 7E 7F 78 8E BB 16 95 DE 69 1A 52 BC 82
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