My understanding of Noble's comment (and i could be wrong, i'm reading between the lines) is that if you specify the new setting he's suggesting when initializing the replication handler on the slave, then the slave should start using an "Accept-Encoding: gzip" header when querying the master, and that when recieving this header, the master will start wrapping the response in a "Content-Encoding: gzip"
(I'm making this assumption based on his note about this being a new slave config option, with no mention of any new otions on the master) : You propose to do compressed transfers over HTTP ignoring the standard : support for compressed transfers in HTTP. Programming that with a : library doesn't make it "standard". : >> open a JIRA issue. we : > will use a gzip on both ends of the pipe . On : > the slave : >> side you can : > say : > <str name="zip">true<str> : > as an extra option to compress and : >> send : > data from server : > --Noble -Hoss
