Sorry I was not more clear. I can understand not doing compression server side, 
but I would expect decompression to be part of a client without having to get a 
library. The code is already in core, so I am confused why it would not make 
sense for compression to be done in http.request / https.request.

-- Dick

On Mar 12, 2012, at 12:26 PM, Mikeal Rogers wrote:

> compression/decompression are required by SPDY but not required by HTTP.
> 
> Supporting gzip in servers is the job of frameworks and the support in 
> clients is the job of higher level clients like request. Gzip for regular 
> HTTP is unlikely to go in to core.
> 
> -Mikeal
> 
> On Mar 12, 2012, at March 12, 20129:48 AM, Dick Hardt wrote:
> 
>> Will compression/decompression be part of the refactor? I was surprised that 
>> I had to write special code client side to decompress gzipped payloads.
>> 
>> -- Dick
>> 
>> On Mar 10, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Mikeal Rogers wrote:
>> 
>>> I've been talking with isaac lately about getting this in to core.
>>> 
>>> there is an http refactor coming and this is something i want to get in as 
>>> part of it.
>>> 
>>> On Mar 10, 2012, at 11:59 AM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I didn't even think to check for a module.  I assumed spdy was too new.  I 
>>>> won't underestimate node again.
>>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Nuno Job <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Here you go:
>>>> 
>>>> http://github.com/indutny/node-spdy
>>>> http://blog.nodejitsu.com/what-is-node-spdy
>>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Has anyone worked on implementing spdy in node as an http alternative?
>>>> 
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