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Re:Improving Dropbox Performance: Retrieving Thumbnails by zoren on Monday January 27, 2014 @02:55PM (#7132730)
Base64 and then gzip just to make it easier on javascript? Seems hard on dropbox servers.

Why not use a multipart binary response?

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Re:Improving Dropbox Performance: Retrieving Thumbnails by acdha on Monday January 27, 2014 @03:24PM (#7132954)
gzip is basically free on modern server hardware – if it makes life easier on mobile devices, this is a pretty easy tradeoff.
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