Hi, I created this ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119878
The basic idea is that it shouldn't be a big problem to compress output of api.php script using some widely available library, like gzip. That way the size of communication between client and server would be much smaller and users with slow internet might benefit from this. I am not sure how much the data would be reduced, but it could be a significant number in some cases. What do you think about it? Is there any reason not to do that? Note I don't propose some breaking change, rather just create an optional parameter "compression" that would be passed for API requests. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
