On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 04:21:51PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: > Downloading things can go a lot faster if the server and client support > http compression. This is easily added to the ftp program's http support. > > It consists of two parts. Support for deflating the data we receive and > support for the chunked transfer the server will use to send data to us. > The chunked supported is probably useful in its own right as well.
How does it work if you use http to transfer already compressed files ? Does it need special intelligence to avoid compressing things again ? Remember that a lot of people do pkg_add over http. We definitely do NOT want to recompress packages that are already .tgz...
