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Re: Why aren't ELPA packages compressed?
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: Why aren't ELPA packages compressed? |
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Mon, 04 May 2015 15:30:51 -0400 |
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On Mon, 04 May 2015 16:56:50 +0000 Ivan Shmakov <address@hidden> wrote:
IS> That said, it should be perfectly possible to configure the
IS> Apache HTTP server at elpa.gnu.org for transparent compression
IS> support; that way, the data would be sent compressed by Apache
IS> whenever the client claims to support compression. (By the
IS> means of the ‘Accept-Encoding: gzip’ HTTP request header.
IS> A glance at url-http-create-request seems to suggest it /does/
IS> implement support for such requests.)
That still stores the uncompressed tarballs locally on the client. It
also requires the server to do more work--it's cheaper to compress just once.
Ted