Re: h2#404 requiring gzip and/or deflate

On 26 Feb 2014, at 7:54 am, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 25 February 2014 12:37, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
>> The downside of only doing gzip is that if a server *does* use deflate, a HTTP1->2 intermediary will have to re-encode responses. Not saying that's a showstopper, just noting it.
> 
> Well, the server should only do that if the request permits it then.
> Thus, the intermediary would have to opt in to deflate to get deflate.

Of course; never mind. 

It sounds like we're leaning gzip-only, but that people don't care passionately about it. Let's chat about it briefly next week.

Cheers,

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Mark Nottingham   http://www.mnot.net/

Received on Tuesday, 25 February 2014 20:58:07 UTC