Re: Support for gzip at the server #424

Sorry, I was too terse. Yes, I agree with your interpretation.


On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 6:36 PM, David Morris <dwm@xpasc.com> wrote:

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> 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>
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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.
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> 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.
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> 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>
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> > > 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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