• From: Alaric Snell <alaric@a...>
• To: The Deviants <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:37:07 +0100 (BST)

Quoting Mark Feblowitz <mfeblowitz@f...>:

> I understand that not all uses of XML are via HTTP, but isn't there
> work
> going on in the HTTP world to add compression?

HTTP has, for a long time, supported bit-transparent compression like deflate
(aka gzip), just the browsers don't often bother sending the header that says
"C'mon! You can send it compressed!".

ABS

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