Re: [freenet-devl] integrating zlib compression into freenet

[Ian Clarke]

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:56:43AM -0400, Timm Murray wrote:
> I'm not about to do any scientific servay of it, but I know
> a lot of data could benifit (web pages, other text, all Freenet metadata, etc.).  
> OTOH, a lot of data would not benifit.  So, I say make it a CLI option
> to compress before insertion.  Clients requesting it could automaticly
> recognize the data being returned as compressed and autonaticly 
> decompress before using them further.

Is there a way to represent that something is compressed in a MIME type?
For example:

application/gzip:text/html

?

Ian.

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