[e2e] Compression of web pages

[Woojune Kim]

How does the client indicate this to the server ? And vice versa ?
Do you click on special tags ? Or is it in the HTTP Request message itself ?

thanks

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Li, Jiang (Leo) [mailto:lij6 at cs.rpi.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 10:56 AM
> To: Woojune Kim
> Cc: end2end-interest at postel.org
> Subject: Re: [e2e] Compression of web pages
> 
> 
> Some web servers (e.g. Apache) does support this function as 
> long as the
> web browsers can deal with it.
> 
> Leo
> -- 
> Li, Jiang (Leo)
> Computer Science Department
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
> http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~lij6
> 
> Woojune Kim wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I recently saw an article in the WSJ in the column by 
> Mossberg, describing Sprint PCS 's wireless internet access 
> services. It said that SprintPCS uses some sort of 
> compression / decompression technology to make the user get 
> the look / feel of a 400Kbps connection even though the 
> actual physical data rate is only 50-70Kbps.
> > 
> > >From the description it looks like they have some sort of 
> compression agent either in their access box or an external 
> box. Something like the WAP servers or a specialized Web 
> Proxy server. My guess is that they also had some special 
> decompress software in their mobile handsets or laptops.
> > 
> > I was wondering though, wouldn't it be more efficient if 
> the web client were able to request "compressed web pages" in 
> the initial HTTP request ? So instead of having specialized 
> proxy servers etc. the compresssion etc. would be done at the 
> originating server.... (This would not have to be a 
> performance hit as compressed pages could be prepared offline etc.)
> > 
> > Has this idea been floated around and killed already ? Or 
> is it already out there in some form ?
> > 
> > thanks
>