- From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:21:15 +0100
- To: Justin Chapweske <justin@chapweske.com>
- Cc: lisa@osafoundation.org, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Justin Chapweske wrote: > o Secondly, I would like to see PATCH advocate at least one generic > binary delta format. Unless I am mistaken, gdiff is only useful for > text documents. Is there a binary delta format being used, or planned, for delta transmission of cached documents? What I mean is that if I have a cached entity with etag "abcdefg", and I request it with If-None-Match, then maybe a server or cache could send me the delta between what I have and the current entity - just to reduce bandwidth. If there's such a standard being proposed or even still being designed, it would probably be good to pick the same binary delta format. -- Jamie
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