Re: Support for gzip at the server #424

On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 09:32:21PM -0700, William Chan (ι™ˆζ™Ίζ˜Œ) wrote:
> On Mar 15, 2014 7:45 PM, "James Cloos" <cloos@jhcloos.com> wrote:
> >
> > It seems from all of this that the /real/ bugs are using the gzip CE for
> > anything which is not already gzip(1)-compressed on disk, and http/2's
> > flawed idea of making any non-transparent CE implicit.
> >
> > Changing how CE works clearly breaks things and lacks any real benefits.
>
> I must be missing something. There's no implicit content encoding, is
> there? I thought it was implicit accept encoding.

Correct. The spec clearly says that if implicit A-E gzip is used, it MUST
be properly marked via C-E (and the same goes for any explicit A-E entries
server uses).

Quoting latest git master of the spec:
> "A compressed response MUST still bear an appropriate content-encoding
> header field."


-Ilari

Received on Sunday, 16 March 2014 06:35:54 UTC