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Re:URLs: It's Complicated by nayuki on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @11:57PM (#27613828)
Even though HTTP DEFLATE saves ~20 bytes compared to GZIP, it itself is a wart because of some vendor misunderstandings. HTTP DEFLATE is actually DEFLATE data wrapped in a zlib container, not raw DEFLATE. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_compression#Problems_prev... ; https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3932117/handling-http-co...
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Re:URLs: It's Complicated by benibela on Thursday June 24, 2021 @09:23AM (#27617022)
I just implemented decompression in my HTTP client this week

I could not test that part because both server I tried send raw deflate, without zlib container

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