RE: Net::HTTP does not use compressed transfers when it should

2003-03-25 Thread David Carter
Mike, If you're interested, I have some working perl code that does deflate decompression. It does it at the application level, and needs to be moved down into Net::HTTP and/or LWP. There are some wrinkles related to handling of window_bits (or similar, don't have the code in front of me at the

Re: Net::HTTP does not use compressed transfers when it should

2003-03-25 Thread Mike Simons
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:21:21PM -, Paul Marquess wrote: You need to be very careful with HTTP deflate encoding. Due to a common misreading of the HTTP spec, there are two distinct implementations of HTTP deflate out in the wild. The correct implementation uses RFC 1950. The incorrect

Re: Net::HTTP does not use compressed transfers when it should

2003-03-25 Thread Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat
Le mardi 25 mars 2003 à 14:21, Paul Marquess écrivait: Finally, I'm the author of Compress::Zlib, and I've been giving it a major overhaul over the last couple of months (I've been at it on-and-off for a few months because I don't have a lot of free time at the moment). One of my goals is to