New Indy License Pricing

[Bob Sneidar]

Wrong thread.

Bob S


> On Jul 21, 2015, at 13:17 , David Bovill <david at viral.academy> wrote:
> 
> 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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