On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 6:13 AM, Attila-Mihaly Balazs <[email protected]> wrote:
> If I get a trace, I'll be sure to post it. There is also this short > back-and-forth I had about the topic on the cURL mailing list: > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.curl.general/15227 > > BTW, from the quote I understand that "the server SHOULD use the > "identity" content-coding" - ie. sending with gzip encoding is incorrect if > the client didn't request it :-) > No, the terms used in RFC standards are carefully defined (see https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt) and acting against a `SHOULD` does not qualify as incorrect -- to quote RFC 2119, using `SHOULD` rather than `MUST` implies "there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances when the particular behavior is acceptable or even useful". In this case, the "particular circumstances" might be that some legacy browsers don't properly send accept-encoding yet do correctly accept gzip encoded responses. Alex > > Cheers, > Attila > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/ba869ac8-28dd-488f-8623-9317f0289a2f%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/ba869ac8-28dd-488f-8623-9317f0289a2f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CAE46Be9QPvfmh%3DQc7Etgz9-fHuMuR6T%3D7sEUUY1vwG0TU%3DHJuw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
