Re: Support for gzip at the server #424 (Consensus Call)

Apologies if I'm drifting off topic at all.


​On 28 April 2014 20:45, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:

>
> On 28 Apr 2014, at 8:09 pm, Matthew Kerwin <matthew@kerwin.net.au> wrote:
>
> >
> > ​<form action="/rsrc-that-accepts-gzip" method="POST"><input type="file"
> name="f"></form>
> > ​<p>Select a file to upload (gzip files will be automatically
> extracted)</p>
>
> True - but I was thinking of something like
>
> <form action=“/foo” method=“POST” content-encoding=“gzip”>…</form>
>
>

That introduces a UI/UX problem; ​does a browser present the gzip support
to the human? And if so, how does the human choose between: here's a file
which is already gzipped / here's a file which you can gzip for me* /
here's a file, don't gzip it?

* urgh, and is this any better than dynamic C-E in responses?

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