Re: ANN: lynx2.9.2

Thomas Dickey wrote in
 <[email protected]>:
 |On Sat, Jun 01, 2024 at 07:59:07PM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
 |> Thomas Dickey wrote in
 |>  <[email protected]>:
 |>|The current version of lynx is 2.9.2
 |>  ...
 |>|* adapt special case of gzip decompression in 2.8.9dev.12 to brotli, \
 |>|to handle
 |>|  downloads from websites which support "br" (report by Rajeev V \
 |>|  Pillai) \
 |>  ...
 |> 
 |> That made me look .. i see IsCompressionFormat() does not handle
 |> the zstd that is more and more used in the open source software
 |> world, for package formats etc, and supported by webservers, too
 |> (ie the wonderful lighttpd i use since 1.4.59 in 2021).
 |
 |actually - for websites so far, this seems to be used only by facebook/etc.
 |
 |I did notice it, considered whether to delay another week to do this.
 |
 |But since I'm not aware of any useful websites relying upon zstd,
 |I put it off for "soon" (patches will be duly considered).
 |It also would help to see websites using the feature.

I now looked around a bit, and found

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1301878#c62


  It's probably worthwhile to mention that Chrome now supports
  this behind a developer flag in 117
  (https://chromestatus.com/feature/6186023867908096). Given the
  widespread industry support for Zstd at this point it seems very
  likely that they'll keep the feature in.

and #c65

  Mozilla’s position on Zstandard for Content-Encoding changed
  from “defer” in 2019 to positive in 2023.

  https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/105#issuecomment-566719336

  https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/775#issuecomment-1754635490

and #c71

  I think this can be closed? zstd support landed in v126:
  https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/126.0/releasenotes/. The
  devtools don't support it yet (responses just look like
  gibberish) but that should be fixed by #1891610

Oh wow, that is now amazing, that was nine days ago!
By sheer coincidence.

 |2.9.2 is basically fixes prompted by feedback from 2.9.1 :-)

2.9.1 just works here.

 |> Would you be interested in adding support for that?
 |> If i write a patch?
 |
 |sure - there's enough in Lynx now for gzip and brotli that the patter \
 |should
 |be easy to follow.

Yes i had that same impression; 'never have used it on programming
level, but only looked a month ago (plzip related) and found
unfortunately obsoleted user-passes-buffer interface variants, if
i recall correctly.

I unfortunately have lost six months for my mailer due to writing
a RFC 5322 parser (that i hope to integrate there however), and
a DKIM signer, and talking loud on IETF lists that do not want to
hear that .. anyway, eh, i cannot promise i find time next week or
so, but i *would* come back to this issue, as i think it surely
will make its way.

Ciao!

--steffen
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