Dave Cridland wrote:
OpenSSL has negotiated the DEFLATE compression codec defined in RFC 3749 since 0.9.8 came out - the documentation may be wrong, but it always is with OpenSSL.
TLS only negotiates compression when the client sends a TLSv1 hello. Which few servers do on the public network... because SSL_CTX_new(3) recommends SSLv23_method(). With those few hosts that do it right, it works quite well, even when different TLS libs are used (openssl and gnutls for example).
