Re: compressed body in HTTP POST request; using Jabber for IM

2004-02-11 Thread Tom Copeland
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 10:10, Adrian German wrote: One last question would be about the relative performance of compressed HTTP vs. technologies currently used for Instant Messaging such as Jabber. I know that this is too general but I'd be very interested to know if (in your experience, or

Re: compressed body in HTTP POST request; using Jabber for IM

2004-02-11 Thread Danny Angus
We were thinking of using either Tomcat or JBoss for the server, Unless you're not going to use http with JBOSS You'll find that JBOSS is Bundled with Tomcat for the web app container.. From my extensive and brain deadening reading of the MIME rfcs I don't think you be violating the spec

Re: compressed body in HTTP POST request; using Jabber for IM

2004-02-11 Thread Danny Angus
Aha.. misread content-encoding as content-type.. I suspect that gzip is *not* an encoding, which is something like Base64, Uuencode or Quoted-printable and is used to ensure that binary data will pass unmolested through mail transport agents (MTA's) which are only required to handle ASCII,