New Indy License Pricing

David Bovill david at viral.academy
Tue Jul 21 16:17:41 EDT 2015


I want to send gzip encoded data back from the LiveCode server I'm working
on. According to the docs: compress function uses the slob compression
library.

And according to Wikipedia


> The "Content-Encoding"/"Accept-Encoding" and "Transfer-Encoding"/"TE"
> headers in HTTP <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP>/1.1 allow clients
> to optionally receive compressed HTTP
> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_compression> responses and (less
> commonly) to send compressed requests. The specification for HTTP/1.1 (RFC
> 2616 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616>) specifies three compression
> methods: "gzip" (RFC 1952 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1952>; the
> content wrapped in a gzip stream), "deflate" (RFC 1950
> <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1950>; the content wrapped in a
> zlib-formatted stream), and "compress" (explained in RFC 2616
> <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616> section 3.5 as "*The encoding
> format produced by the common UNIX file compression program compress. This
> format is an adaptive Lempel-Ziv-Welch coding (LZW).*"). Many client
> libraries, browsers, and server platforms (including Apache
> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server> and Microsoft IIS
> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_IIS>) support gzip. Many
> agents also support deflate, although several important players incorrectly
> implement deflate support using the format specified by RFC 1951
> <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1951> instead of the correct format
> specified by RFC 1950 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1950> (which
> encapsulates RFC 1951 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1951>). Notably,
> Internet Explorer versions 6, 7, and 8 report deflate support but do not
> actually accept RFC 1950 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1950> format,
> making actual use of deflate highly unusual. Many clients accept both RFC
> 1951 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1951> and RFC 1950
> <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1950>-formatted data for the "deflate"
> compressed method, but a server has no way to detect whether a client will
> correctly handle RFC 1950 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1950> format.
>

That bodes well. Anyone know if this works with most browsers?



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