[gopher] bandwidth overhead for gopher

[James Mills]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 2:20 AM, Kim Holviala <kim at holviala.com> wrote:

> True, but because Gopher doesn’t have any metadata the client cannot ask
> for, and cannot know if the reply is compressed or not. Gophernicus for
> example can easily be configured to gzip everything on the fly… but no
> gopher client will ever be able to understand what the hell is happening.
>

Future clients or client modifications *can* by first reading /caps.txt
of some attribute for servers that support "on the fly compression".
(If we want this we should open a new thread)

cheers
James


James Mills / prologic

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