Re: Support for gzip at the server #424 from Martin Thomson on 2014-03-14 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from January to March 2014)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:38:53 -0700
To: Roland Zink <roland@zinks.de>
Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABkgnnVERABGOQiGkFQE4fqVtf8DpXWVVBTt8rEK3b7_Gdu_wQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 14 March 2014 02:20, Roland Zink <roland@zinks.de> wrote:
> ISIZE is in the footer and not the header.

So that leads me back to the original conclusion.  Since
intermediation from 2 to 1.1 will require the Content-Length and
extracting that from a gzip'd body would require buffering an entire
request, I'm inclined to say that this is too hard.

Does anyone disagree?

Received on Friday, 14 March 2014 16:39:21 UTC