Re: gzip/deflate compression/encoding

Frank Ellermann <[email protected]>
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Bruce Lilly wrote:

> Conclusions:
> 1. binary-to-8bit encoding w/o gzip compression is fine for audio,
>    image, and video media which already has media-specific compression
>    (for 8bit transport, avoiding the 37+% expansion of base64)

Yes

> 2. gzip compression seems to be suitable for only a limited set of media
>    types, therefore:
[...]
     or
     e. let's see what happens after testing the water with 1.

Bye, Frank
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