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gzip vs. deflate (was RE: gzip-8bit)

2003-02-27 08:19:26

Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:

Deflate fits better architecturally, IMO. gzip has an uncomfortable
overlap with Content-Disposition.

Having to look for filenames both in content-type and
content-disposition is bad enough. That it might be in the gzip
meta-information as well is No Fun At All.

If we do gzip, the FNAME parameter will definitely be a SHOULD NOT set,
MUST ignore, since Content-Disposition with RFC 2231 can do the same
thing with i18n.

The main advantage of gzip that I can see is the CRC32 and the ease of
piping things through the gzip program.

Ned and I are still very open to being convinced either way.

          - dan
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