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

On 2014-04-28 13:23, Mark Nottingham wrote:
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> On 28 Apr 2014, at 9:22 pm, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
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>> On 2014-04-28 12:45, Matthew Kerwin wrote:
>>> ...
>>> ​How does your non-browser client discover that the resource exists in
>>> the first place, or can be POSTed or PUT to? That's the place to add
>>
>> HEAD? PROPFIND? AtomPub?
>>
>>> that it ​can handle zipped files. Whether that be in the linking
>>> hypermedia, or offline API documentation, or a new link extension in a
>>> Link header, etc.
>>> ...
>>
>> Yes, many ways to do that. But there should be a single way, so that middleware can do it automatically.
>
> As discussed, “middleware can do it automatically” and content-encoding don’t mix so well...

It's an issue for server->client, but not the other way around... 
(unless I'm missing something?)

Best regards, Julian

Received on Monday, 28 April 2014 11:31:52 UTC