[freenet-devl] integrating zlib compression into freenet

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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.
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