Jonas Sicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This at the cost of the overhead of always making an OPTIONS request > before attempting compression.
Only if you haven't seen the server before - and in the vast majority of cases, you will have. I wouldn't suggest sending it every time, because that would be clearly daft. Typically, HTTP clients need to maintain notes on servers if they want to work optimally with them anyway. Whether the server supports compression via gzip and/or deflate would just be another bit of information that the client could collect. -- Stewart Brodie