- From: lilley <lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 20:06:12 +0000 (GMT)
- To: agulbra@troll.no (Arnt Gulbrandsen)
- Cc: gh@748pku.pku.edu.cn, www-talk@w3.org
> > Gao Hong <gh@748pku.pku.edu.cn> > > I mean we define a compress standard using on the internet. > > ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-deutsch-deflate-spec-02.txt > contains that. From the draft announcement: > > Title : DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3 Yes, good call on that spec which was put out recently a san ID to complement the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) specification. The other half of the coin is how to indicate that this has been applied, and existing practice uses the HTTP 1.1 Content-Encoding header for this. For example cguhpc [62]: telnet info 80 Trying... Connected to info.mcc.ac.uk. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD /CGU/VRML/chicken.wrl.gz HTTP/1.1 HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 20:05:12 GMT Server: Apache/1.0.0 Content-type: x-world/x-vrml Content-encoding: x-gzip Content-length: 71835 Last-modified: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 20:04:41 GMT Connection closed by foreign host. -- Chris Lilley, Technical Author and JISC representative to W3C +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Manchester and North Training & Education Centre ( MAN T&EC ) | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Computer Graphics Unit, Email: Chris.Lilley@mcc.ac.uk | | Manchester Computing Centre, Voice: +44 161 275 6045 | | Oxford Road, Manchester, UK. Fax: +44 161 275 6040 | | M13 9PL BioMOO: ChrisL | | Timezone: UTC URI: http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/staff/lilley/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
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