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.. -- # tavin cole # # "The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, # a continual flight from wonder." # - Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl >From - Wed May 2 08:52:56 2001 Return-Path: <devl-admin at freenetproject.org> Received: from hawk.freenetproject.org (postfix@[4.18.42.11]) by funky.danky.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA23200 for <danello at danky.com>; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:06:39 -0400 Received: from hawk.freenetproject.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hawk.freenetproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CBDA5808E; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 12:47:17 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: devl at freenetproject.org Received: from server5.generalmail.com (server5.fpw.ch [194.209.117.20]) by hawk.freenetproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 033BF5808C
