- From: Andrew Daviel <andrew@andrew.triumf.ca>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 10:57:02 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com>
- cc: www-html@w3.org, http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote: > "Compress" is not a standard, and uses the patented LZW algorithm. > GZIP is the only compressed encoding both patent-free and specified > in an RFC (an informational RFC rather than an official standard, but > better than nothing). The GZIP program suffers from the GPL, but the > GZIP encoding standard does not--the format is public domain. I guess I should have looked in the RFCs. RFC 1945 gives compress, gzip as aliases for x-compress, x-gzip while RFC 2068 gives x-compress, x-gzip as aliases for compress, gzip. My Linux Netscape 3.01 only sends Accept, Accept-Language not Accept-Encoding, though it does in fact accept both encodings and the Accept-Encoding header was defined in the HTTP/1.0 spec. Pity; one might have been able to negotiate on large documents (in my case a difference between 128kb and 4kb - surely significant on non-compressing network links). (Cc:'s - I was wondering why compression was not supported in Netscape (& MSIE) for Windows) Andrew Daviel TRIUMF & Vancouver Webpages
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