RE: #445: Transfer-codings

On Wednesday,09 April 2014 02:48, mnot@mnot.net wrote:
>On 4 Apr 2014, at 4:52 pm, Matthew Kerwin <matthew@kerwin.net.au> wrote:
>>> Also, how should a recipient handle a stream that has DATA frames with different values for encoding?
>>
>> By decoding each as it arrives, the same way it would handle a stream with the same encoding every frame. Two gzip'd frames don't add together to make one big gzip file.
>>
> Isn't it much more likely that intermediaries will actually implement this if they can do that form of pass-through?

Actually, the intermediary can pass-through with gzip or deflate.  Concatenated gzip or deflate streams can be uncompressed as if they were one big stream.  See http://www.zlib.net/manual.html

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