Re: i28 proposed replacement text

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On mån, 2008-06-02 at 11:31 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > Yves Lafon wrote:
> > > >As already mentioned both gzip and deflate has this property to a
> > > >sufficient level.
> > > 
> > > But it is used that way in deployed servers/clients ? Or is chunked 
> > > encoding always the norm.
> > 
> > Chunked encoding clearly is not the norm when sending compressed
> > dynamic content to a HTTP/1.0 client.
> 
> We are talking about transfer-encoding and message delimiting, not
> content-encoding.

True, but the same message integrity issues w.r.t connection aborts
apply to Content-Encoding used for compressed dynamic content.  Since
that is how it's done most often right now, it seems relevant.

-- Jamie


> 
> Regards
> Henrik

Received on Monday, 2 June 2008 16:32:21 UTC