Does you code allow suporting more then gzip? For example Brotli compression is becoming inmportant for some web apps.
Barry > On 24 Jul 2017, at 17:30, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 2:20 AM, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 12:15 AM, Pierre Quentel <pierre.quen...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> - if so, should it be supported by default ? It is the case in the PR, >>> where a number of content types, eg text/html, are compressed if the user >>> agent accepts the gzip "encoding" >> >> >> I'm pretty wary of compression happening by default -- i.e. someone runs >> exactly the same code with a newer version of Python, and suddenly some >> content is getting compressed. > > FWIW I'm quite okay with that. HTTP already has a mechanism for > negotiating compression (Accept-Encoding), designed to be compatible > with servers that don't support it. Any time a server gains support > for something that clients already support, it's going to start > happening as soon as you upgrade. > > Obviously this kind of change won't be happening in a bugfix release > of Python, so it would be part of the regular checks when you upgrade > from 3.6 to 3.7 - it'll be in the NEWS file and so on, so you read up > on it before you upgrade. > > ChrisA > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
