Re: Enable compression of a blob to .zip file

On 2011-10-31 18:42, Charles Pritchard wrote:
> On 10/30/2011 5:56 PM, Cameron McCormack wrote:
>> On 30/10/11 4:25 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>>> Then he probably means file system files and not HTTP files, and support
>>> there has indeed been spotty in the past.
>>
>> Ah, yes. Regarding data: URIs, someone should really just amend the
>> RFC to allow specifying a content encoding.

That'll be tricky with respect to backwards compatibility; but it could 
be worth a try.

> That seems rather unnecessary.
>
> I'm almost certain that somewhere, it is specified that the browser
> should sniff the first few bytes of the file to see
> if it is compressed. It's minimal work.
>
> This also applies to the local file system; as in file:///.

Hm, no. It's not specified, and seems like a bad idea to do.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 30 November 2011 15:04:35 UTC