Re: h2#404 requiring gzip and/or deflate

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com> wrote:
> The thinking when we put it into SPDY was that if you do gzip, you've
> effectively required a deflate implementation, so one may as well allow it.

If everybody can use either of the algorithms with ease, there's no
point to mandate both. I also agree with Bjoern's point that
gzip/deflate is pretty slow; enabling it may actually decrease
throughput in a lot of deployments.

Zhong Yu

>
> In the end, I'm ambivalent so long as there is a reasonable payload
> compression requirement.
> -=R
>
> On Feb 21, 2014 9:44 AM, "Martin Thomson" <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 21 February 2014 09:38, Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > No. Reverting to solely identity would be a huge step backwards.
>>
>> That's what I thought.  Which would you prefer gzip + deflate or just
>> gzip?

Received on Friday, 21 February 2014 20:47:13 UTC