[whatwg] Content encoding (e.g. compression) in Web Sockets

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Tue Mar 2 17:50:57 PST 2010


On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Doug Simpkinson wrote:
>
> If the headers are optional, is there a reason they can't be added to 
> the spec in version 1?  It's OK if the first implementations ignore it, 
> but it seems that some implementations have a faster release cycle than 
> IETF protocol spec updates, so the upside to having it in the spec 
> sooner is huge.

There's no reason we can't update the spec quickly.

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