Re: [PATCH] Turn on deflate in the client

On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:46:40AM +0100, Sander Striker wrote:
> The problem we saw previously appeared to be on the server side.
> Thanks to Justins patch, this seems to work fine now (I did a
> full checkout without problems).

Does mod_deflate now stream responses to the client (i.e. isn't always
precomputing the Content-Length)?

> This patch will enable subversion to handle compressed responses
> from the server. As Joe pointed out, the util.c patch could be
> left out, since that gives compressed OPTIONS responses. I'm
> not completely familiar with how it all ties together, but are
> the reports fetched in fetch.c or in util.c? If the latter,
> I think it makes sense to leave the compression in.

Yes, good point. I found a potential segfault in neon's
ne_decompress_destroy, and I'm also just hooking up code to check the
gzip response checksum: it might be prudent to wait until there is a new
neon release with these in before enabling this by default.

Regards,

joe

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