Ftp-WG: ZLIB compressed transmission mode

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ftp-wg-owner [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Jeff Preston
> 
> We are looking at developing a compressed FTP transmission 
> mode to save bandwidth in mobile/wireless and embedded 
> environments. The 'right thing to do' is to use open 
> standards, such as the zlib compression library, and work 
> with other developers to propose a FTP extension. Is anyone 
> else working on a light-weight lossless compression extension? 

A 'semi-standard' on behalf of the WU-FTPD software is that the user can ask
for "file.Z" or "file.zip", and the server will compress the file in that
format (unless file.Z or file.zip exist already, of course).

Alun.
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