[e2e] Compression of web pages

[Kostas Pentikousis]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Woojune Kim wrote:

  | But, correct me if I'm wrong, this is more of a passive indication

In fact, it's as "active" as you can get, since you explicitly specify what
encodings you can handle

  | saying I can receive gziped files. What I was wondering if there was a
  | way for the user to indicate proactively, "Please compress these HTML
  | files when you send them to me."
  |

  | The original question was triggered by how we can allow wireless
  | internet users to get compressed web pages. It seems only by having

IMO, that's exactly what Accept-Encoding is supposed to
do: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.3

Best regards,

Kostas
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