RE: [Beacon] Review of current spec

Would make sense. However, the user agent does not know whether the beacon server accepts gzip encoding.


Alois Reitbauer | Technical Product Manager | Compuware APM



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From: Chase Douglas <chase@newrelic.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 5:42 PM
To: Reitbauer, Alois
Cc: public-web-perf@w3.org
Subject: Re: [Beacon] Review of current spec

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Reitbauer, Alois <Alois.Reitbauer@compuware.com<mailto:Alois.Reitbauer@compuware.com>> wrote:
Size Limits:

We set the size limit to 10k, waiting for feedback whether analytics tools need more.

Is it possible to add an option to have the UA compress the data with gzip before sending? The UA obviously can receive gzip compressed data, so why not also optimize message sizes on transmission?
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