Re: Encoding !!

Quoting rakesh <[email protected]> from ml.gnutella.dev-forum:
:In handshaking, Gnutella peer send "Content-Encoding: deflate" for the response
:of "Accept-Encoding: deflate" , if it has support for deflate.
:
:My question is :
:Is it possible that data may be or may not be encoded  or all the communication
:between the peers are encoded ?
:
:How peer detects that data is encoded or not ?

It's easy: if the remote servent sends you "Content-Encoding: deflate",
then data that will be sent after the handshaking phase is over will be
deflated.

When you say "Accept-Encoding: deflate" to the other party, you simply
tell it that you will be able to handle deflated data, should the remote
party answer with "Content-Encoding: deflate".

Thanks to the 3-way handshaking, the 2 parties can mutually negotiate
traffic compression since they both have the opportunity to emit the
"Accept-Encoding: deflate" header and have "Content-Encoding: deflate"
sent back by the other party..

Raphael