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Re: httpbis and deflate compression...

From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:53:44 +0100
Message-ID: <4BA81F28.1040007@gmx.de>
To: Dan Winship <dan.winship@gmail.com>
CC: "Mahdavi, Jamshid" <jamshid.mahdavi@bluecoat.com>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On 23.03.2010 02:48, Dan Winship wrote:
> On 03/22/2010 08:49 PM, Mahdavi, Jamshid wrote:
>> We could try to clarify this by adding an implementation note to the
>> text. Alternately, since some servers actually do implement *just* the
>> 1951 version, we could add another content-coding which is
>> specifically for this.
>
> My understanding is that the "bare" version is actually more common on
> the web than the correct version, due to the fact that at least IE6 and
> IE7 (not sure about 8 and 9) only support the bare version, and most
> other browsers support both.

Sounds like it would be cool to have test cases...

> ...

BR, Julian
Received on Tuesday, 23 March 2010 15:19:47 UTC

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