Re: #445: Transfer-codings

Helge,

On Apr 7, 2014, at 9:41 AM, Helge Hess <helge.hess@opengroupware.org> wrote:
> 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."
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>> 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?
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>> At best it is wasteful to have to generate a large dynamic resource, and then serve only a portion of it. 
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> Maybe I'm off-track here, but aren't PDFs the common example for the usefulness of ranges plus TE?

PDFs are almost always compressed, typically using Flate for the page and font objects and Flate or JPEG for the image objects.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair