• From: Fotios <f_bass@y...>
• To: The Deviants <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:43:10 +0100

>
> 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
>

Compression is within network protocol stacks anyway. It is also implemented
in modem hardware.

Later,
Fotios



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