On Friday 01 Aug 2003 17:38, Edgar Friendly wrote:
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >Is there any particular reason why the tool would do that on it's own?
> > > The node already has to do it regardless (am I correct in thinking
> > > that?), so doing it twice is wasteful.
>
> The node should not do any data compression; that's completely a
> client issue.
>
> > adding a hypothetical FCP parameter like "tryToCompress=false" would
> > force the node to not try to compress the stuff and thus tools could
> > compress the data by themselves using faster and/or native
> > routines/hardware.
>
> The node will not be compressing data for people; it's definitely
> better to have clients that support compressed keys, but the node
> should stay out of the way of this kind of thing, as it just
> needlessly complicates the node.  And we all know fred is complicated
> enough.

Are you saying that this should be done in fproxy (and/or other client 
applets)?
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