Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:38:54 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: deflate and gzip support for libfetch over http Message-ID: <86iqvp25rl.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <48691DD6.9000306@bsdforen.de> (Dominic Fandrey's message of "Mon\, 30 Jun 2008 19\:54\:30 %2B0200") References: <48691DD6.9000306@bsdforen.de>
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Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> writes: > I hacked together deflate support for the http part of libfetch. Next > on my todo list is proper error handling, gzip support, code clean up > and general code clean up in http.c (in order of priority). I think the libfetch API has been stretched to its limit, or close to it, and that it should be redesigned from scratch. That said, I don't see any harm in adding deflate / gzip support, but it has to be done in a way that supports transfers that are chunked *and* compressed. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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