I think Tavin gets what I was suggesting here. What do you think Ian?
For large text or html files to be both compressed and browsable,
zlib compression signified by a meta data field would be most
useful. We could start by having only text, html and various other
markup languages automatically compressed and decompressed
by the client.
It seems like Freenet would have a lot of usefulness in countries
like China that have underdeveloped network infrastructures and
oppressive governments. Compression on the most basic file
types would be helpful.
l8r
Aaron
On Monday, April 30, 2001, at 12:37 PM, Tavin Cole wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:06:02PM +0100, toad wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:50:01AM -0400, Tavin Cole wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 03:19:13AM +0100, Michael Rogers wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:45:38AM -0700, Mr.Bad wrote:
>>>>> For small files, like plain text and HTML, you really don't get much
>>>>> bang for your buck by compressing them, at least w/r/t on-the-wire
>>>>> transfer time.
>>>>
>>>> Why are text and HTML necessarily small? People might want to insert
>>>> books, HOWTOs etc as well as web pages.
>>>
>>> And if they did they'd be silly not to compress them first.
>> They might want them browseable. If we have an optional metadata header
>> a la
>> HTTP's Transfer-Encoding, they can be compressed and browseable.
>
> Well, that's entirely reasonable. Netscape and lynx will both figure out
> the
> right thing to do with a file that ends in .gz, but I suppose to really do
> it right, we should update the metadata standard to include a
> TransferEncoding field as well as ContentType. Don't know how that would
> work with the dublin core version of the Info fields tho..
>
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