Re: Support for gzip at the server #424

On Tue, 18 Mar 2014, Mark Nottingham wrote:

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> On 18 Mar 2014, at 9:32 am, William Chan (???) <willchan@chromium.org> wrote:
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> > Just to be clear, you only mean server support for gzip, not client support, right?
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> Yes - just this issue, not the client side.

I think a client and server is always involved, so I think this issue is
client compression of request content and server handling that compressed
input.

I think that server originating gzip compressed content and the client
being required to handle it is NOT the issue being discussed here?

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> > The client support is very helpful for performance.
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> > As far as server support, I think it'd be great to have too, but the interop problems are indeed problematic.
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> > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
> > I'm beginning to think this issue might be in the "diminishing returns" bucket.
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> > Does anyone think that we firmly need this, or is it just a nice-to-have?
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> > Cheers,
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> > Mark Nottingham   http://www.mnot.net/
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> Mark Nottingham   http://www.mnot.net/
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Received on Tuesday, 18 March 2014 01:37:37 UTC