"Nitin Nangia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> Hi All,
>
> I was just wondering whether there is any Compression
> Support available on palm which would help me compress
> my data packet before i send it over to a web server.
>
> I could see the INetCompressionTypeEnum which provides
> for Custom 5-bit compression scheme that it says is
> typically used for data sent from the Palm Web
> Clipping Proxy server.
>
> If i were writing a HTTP client for palm,is any
> compression scheme available ?
There will be... if you read the INetLow sample source, you'll see
information about Lz77 compression. This is available now in the emulator
using the pre-deployment server, and will be available for general use on
the Palm VII once Palm moves over to their 2.0 proxy software, something
which will probably happen when the PalmOS 4.0 devices start appearing.
--
Ben Combee
Veriprise Wireless <http://www.veriprise.com>
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