HTTP compression

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Is HTTP compression the same thing as gzip please?

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They are not the same, but gzip is a form of HTTP compression. Another well known HTTP compression method is deflate.

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Thanks ScallioXTX, is there a form of HTTP compression that isn’t gzip or deflate?

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The RFC (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230#section-4.2) defines compress, gzip and deflate, but there are others, like google’s Google Shared Dictionary Compression Over HTTP (SDCH) used in chrome. That last one is proprietary I’m quite certain it won’t work in any browser other than chrome. There are probably a few other proprietary schemes out there, but I doubt they are used a lot.

Why the interest?

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Thanks, just looking to apply HTTP compression. To all people looking in, for HTTP compression, what’s the best way to do it please?

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