- From: Helge Hess <helge.hess@opengroupware.org>
- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:41:50 +0200
- To: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Apr 7, 2014, at 8:07 AM, Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com> wrote: > But I have to respond to one particular type of comment that keeps coming up: "well-constructed sites which compressed their resources." > > That's a big value judgement on what constitutes good site design. Yes, in lots of cases it makes sense to compress your resources and have multiple representations, especially for static resources; but what about the sites that aren't like that? Why is it bad site design to have a big resource that can be accessed with ranges? > > At best it is wasteful to have to generate a large dynamic resource, and then serve only a portion of it. Maybe I'm off-track here, but aren't PDFs the common example for the usefulness of ranges plus TE? You query the byte range required to display a specific page from the catalog, and then you would want to compress that for transfer. I can imagine a set of resources which would work like that. hh P.S.: I didn't follow the whole thread, but a significant issue TE solves are ETag's in combination with content-negotiation.
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