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Re:Architecting Websites for the HTTP/2 Era by joeyespo on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @09:20AM (#9538643)
Could the order be reversed, encrypting first then compressing second?

So only compress when sending over the wire?

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Re:Architecting Websites for the HTTP/2 Era by Wilya on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @11:13AM (#9539522)
You could, but you wouldn't compress much.

Encrypted data is supposed to look random, and as a consequence, it tends to compress very poorly.

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Re:Architecting Websites for the HTTP/2 Era by joeyespo on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @09:32PM (#9574198)
Interesting. I was afraid that'd be the answer. Thanks for the reply.
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