Re: Design Issue: GZIP flag on DATA Frames

Actually, my apologies, for some reason my brain did not register the
"allowed to used the '-0' uncompressed mode" in your first note. The
approach you suggest could definitely work, I think.

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> In message <CABP7RbeuieZ_tT=8ej6sQi94nRC79=rF1Fy8H_hNFhvH2_A7OA@mail.gmail.com>
> , James M Snell writes:
>
>>Well... if I know that I'm sending a file that is already compressed,
>>why should I be required to attempt running it through the compressor
>>again?
>
> Why would you do that if it is already compressed ?
>
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