Re: ra_dav compression question

--On Monday, June 23, 2003 1:44 PM -0700 Chris Hecker <checker@d6.com> wrote:

>
>> > The above is all about server -> client stuff. He also wanted to know
>> > about whether stuff from the client to the server (e.g. commits) is ever
>> > gzip compressed. I assume the answer is "No", but maybe someone knows
>> > for sure.
>
> Since I'm new here, I assume the "someone" who would know reads this list?

Neon could be modified to send compressed request bodies. But, that's more
difficult because there is no 'handshake' to ensure that the server can handle
compressed request bodies. With responses, the client sends the
'Accept-Encoding: gzip' in the request, so there is a 'handshake' to ensure
that both sides can support deflate. So, compressing request bodies isn't a
realistic expectation to support with HTTP.

Using ra_svn with ssh tunneling with compression enabled would do both ways as
it blindly does compression on all data.

> Who can answer these questions authoritatively?

Someone on this list. ;-) -- justin

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Received on Mon Jun 23 23:12:45 2003