Re: Support for gzip at the server #424

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz> wrote:

> On 15/03/2014 10:11 a.m., Julian Reschke wrote:
> > On 2014-03-14 18:06, Patrick McManus wrote:
> >> receiving chunked requests is not supported with a high enough certainty
> >> that anyone yet wants to send them in a generic web context. (apps that
> >> know their server's capabilities apriori are a different story). HTTP/2
> >> negotiation at first seems to make that easier, but supporting easy
> >> gatewaying back to http/1.0 makes it hard again :(
> >
> > Is gatewaying to *1.0* a goal at all?
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> > If HTTP/2 is not the right moment to get over 1.0 limitations, when is
> > it then?
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> Good point.
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> Any of the client UA people here have stats on how widespread 1.0
> servers and proxies still are?
>

I don't know any stats offhand, but I believe it's high enough that the
option of breaking compat with 1.0 is not even on the table from my
standpoint. I definitely see bug reports for it.


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