I want to send gzip encoded data back from the LiveCode server I'm working on. According to the docs: compress function uses the slob compression library.
And according to Wikipedia > The "Content-Encoding"/"Accept-Encoding" and "Transfer-Encoding"/"TE" > headers in HTTP <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP>/1.1 allow clients > to optionally receive compressed HTTP > <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_compression> responses and (less > commonly) to send compressed requests. The specification for HTTP/1.1 (RFC > 2616 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616>) specifies three compression > methods: "gzip" (RFC 1952 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1952>; the > content wrapped in a gzip stream), "deflate" (RFC 1950 > <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1950>; the content wrapped in a > zlib-formatted stream), and "compress" (explained in RFC 2616 > <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616> section 3.5 as "*The encoding > format produced by the common UNIX file compression program compress. This > format is an adaptive Lempel-Ziv-Welch coding (LZW).*"). Many client > libraries, browsers, and server platforms (including Apache > <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server> and Microsoft IIS > <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_IIS>) support gzip. Many > agents also support deflate, although several important players incorrectly > implement deflate support using the format specified by RFC 1951 > <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1951> instead of the correct format > specified by RFC 1950 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1950> (which > encapsulates RFC 1951 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1951>). Notably, > Internet Explorer versions 6, 7, and 8 report deflate support but do not > actually accept RFC 1950 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1950> format, > making actual use of deflate highly unusual. Many clients accept both RFC > 1951 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1951> and RFC 1950 > <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1950>-formatted data for the "deflate" > compressed method, but a server has no way to detect whether a client will > correctly handle RFC 1950 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1950> format. > That bodes well. Anyone know if this works with most browsers? _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
