What makes you think there's no standard for compression? WebSockets have a deflate extensions and gzip is support by nearly every browser that you can download.
On Friday, July 5, 2013 at 5:58 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > What is the current wisdom on compressing requests (not responses) in a web > app to run in normal desktop and mobile browsers? > > I tried socket.io (http://socket.io) again and from what I've read, sending > and receiving binary data is problematic, and there's still no standard for > compression, so there isn't any, which is bad. > > So now I'm looking at using AJAX to send a POST request. Clearly in that case > the server can send a gzipped response, but I want the request body to be > compressed too, because it might be large. I'm not concerned about the > generic case when I don't know whether the server supports compression; I'm > interested in the specific case of POSTing to my node.js app which, assuming > I write it correctly, could handle it. > > Should I: > > * manually gzip (or in some other way compress) the data using client-side > JavaScript before POSTing? if so is there a recommended library? > * set a header or other flag in the POST request to indicate to the browser > that it should compress it? > * do nothing? do browsers automatically handle this? > > Thanks for your advice. > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]) > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]) > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
