From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why aren't ELPA packages compressed?
Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 15:30:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878ud487is.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87y4l4l1rh.fsf@violet.siamics.net
On Mon, 04 May 2015 16:56:50 +0000 Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-04 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-04 16:31 Why aren't ELPA packages compressed? Ulrich Mueller
2015-05-04 16:56 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-04 19:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-04 19:30 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2015-05-05 13:12 ` Tom Tromey
2015-05-05 13:31 ` Ulrich Mueller
2015-05-05 14:24 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-05-05 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
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