2006/4/17, Jochen Wiedmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Henri Gomez (JIRA) wrote: > > > GZIP response compression is only available to HTTP 1.1 clients. > > I am sorry, Henri, but I disagree with you on that. > > The main difference between HTTP 1.1 and HTTP 1.0 in that aspect is the > possibility to use chunked encoding or not. However, if chunked encoding > cannot be used, then a dynamic content length is still possible by closing > the writing part of the socket. > > In other words: HTTP 1.1 introduces the possibility to combine a dynamic > content length and HTTP keepalive.
Right. NB: If you take a look at Tomcat you'll see there is a GZIPOutputFilter but no GZIPInputFilter, so it's the Servlet responsability to do the request decompression. That's why use of compressed request failed in the user report.
