[gopher] bandwidth overhead for gopher

[Brian Koontz]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 08:04:59AM +0200, Kim Holviala wrote:
> > On 22 Jan 2015, at 7:51, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
> > 
> > For large single prolonged transfers, such as big files, the proportion of
> > headers to data is so small as to be negligible for especially big file sizes.
> 
> Also, HTTP can compress data on the fly resulting in much smaller transfer sizes than Gopher can ever do.

There's no reason why a gopher server couldn't compress on the fly.  It's
just another binary file...

  --Brian

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