Re: Re: bencoding 0:
"Olaf van der Spek" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.bit-torrent.general |
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>>From: "Olaf van der Spek" <[email protected]> >> > Elliott Mitchell wrote: >> >> >> >> Could be worthwhile to specify that torrent files may be optionally >> >> compressed using the libz style compression. Though this isn't a large >> >> gain. >> >> >> > >> > I think that we can agree that torrent files need not be compressed for >> > storage, only for transfer. HTTP already supports libz compression. >> >> It's called gzip compression, not libz compression. >> And HTTP isn't the only storage mechanism. > > Both refer to the same flavor of LZ77+Huffman. The RFC would be a better > pointer, but I didn't have the number memorized. As we're refering to the > compression, not the file format, "libz" seemed more appropriate. A response body is actually in the gzip format and the header to indicate that is: content-encoding: gzip. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/dkFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BitTorrent/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/