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HTTP compression
Hi,
I'm wondering why HTTP Client doesn't support HTTP compression
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_compression). Will you seriously
entertain a RFE for this feature if I file one?
Thank you,
Gili
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Re: HTTP compression
Posted by Sam Berlin <sb...@gmail.com>.
Excellent point, Oleg. You do such an excellent job with HttpClient
that we're all spoiled and expect more. :)
Sam
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 18:34 -0400, Sam Berlin wrote:
>> It might be interesting to have a small httpcomponents side project,
>> "HttpClient Extensions" that enable these small-but-useful features by
>> default. That way HttpClient can remain small, tidy and content
>> agnostic, while folks wanting a out-of-the-box solution can
>> additionally get the extensions.
>>
>> Perhaps if such a structure existed for folks to submit patches
>> against, an extensions project could form without much work?
>>
>> Sam
>>
>
> Sam,
>
> It is not a big deal to start such a project, whereas, it would be
> significantly more difficult to keep it from deteriorating into
> unmaintained crippleware. It takes at least a few people willing to
> react to new issues in JIRA, answer questions on the user list, vote on
> releases and act as release managers. In other words it takes a
> community to keep a project viable. I am very reluctant to open any new
> (even minor) construction site unless it comes with people committed to
> maintaining the project in the long run.
>
> We have contrib package for all sorts of code we do not want / or unable
> to maintain properly, distributed as semi-official reference material.
>
> Oleg
>
>
>
>> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org> wrote:
>> > On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 18:08 -0700, cowwoc wrote:
>> >> I am glad to see this works, but I am surprised that server to client
>> >> compression is not handled more seamlessly out-of-the-box.
>> >>
>> >> I was actually wondering about client to server GZip compression (that is,
>> >> compressing even the request).
>> >>
>> >> Gili
>> >>
>> >
>> > Gili,
>> >
>> > The request entity compression should be as trivial to implement as the
>> > response entity decompression.
>> >
>> > HttpClient is meant to be content agnostic, that is, any kind of content
>> > processing is out of project's scope.
>> >
>> > Oleg
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>> >> olegk wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 10:57 -0700, cowwoc wrote:
>> >> >> Hi,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I'm wondering why HTTP Client doesn't support HTTP compression
>> >> >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_compression). Will you seriously
>> >> >> entertain a RFE for this feature if I file one?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Thank you,
>> >> >> Gili
>> >> >
>> >> > Gili
>> >> >
>> >> > If you are using HttpClient 4.0 you can easily add support for content
>> >> > compression by adding a few custom protocol interceptors.
>> >> >
>> >> > Please refer to this example for details:
>> >> >
>> >> > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpclient/trunk/module-client/src/examples/org/apache/http/examples/client/ClientGZipContentCompression.java
>> >> >
>> >> > Oleg
>> >> >
>> >> >
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>> >> >
>> >>
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Re: HTTP compression
Posted by Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org>.
On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 18:34 -0400, Sam Berlin wrote:
> It might be interesting to have a small httpcomponents side project,
> "HttpClient Extensions" that enable these small-but-useful features by
> default. That way HttpClient can remain small, tidy and content
> agnostic, while folks wanting a out-of-the-box solution can
> additionally get the extensions.
>
> Perhaps if such a structure existed for folks to submit patches
> against, an extensions project could form without much work?
>
> Sam
>
Sam,
It is not a big deal to start such a project, whereas, it would be
significantly more difficult to keep it from deteriorating into
unmaintained crippleware. It takes at least a few people willing to
react to new issues in JIRA, answer questions on the user list, vote on
releases and act as release managers. In other words it takes a
community to keep a project viable. I am very reluctant to open any new
(even minor) construction site unless it comes with people committed to
maintaining the project in the long run.
We have contrib package for all sorts of code we do not want / or unable
to maintain properly, distributed as semi-official reference material.
Oleg
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 18:08 -0700, cowwoc wrote:
> >> I am glad to see this works, but I am surprised that server to client
> >> compression is not handled more seamlessly out-of-the-box.
> >>
> >> I was actually wondering about client to server GZip compression (that is,
> >> compressing even the request).
> >>
> >> Gili
> >>
> >
> > Gili,
> >
> > The request entity compression should be as trivial to implement as the
> > response entity decompression.
> >
> > HttpClient is meant to be content agnostic, that is, any kind of content
> > processing is out of project's scope.
> >
> > Oleg
> >
> >
> >>
> >> olegk wrote:
> >> >
> >> > On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 10:57 -0700, cowwoc wrote:
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm wondering why HTTP Client doesn't support HTTP compression
> >> >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_compression). Will you seriously
> >> >> entertain a RFE for this feature if I file one?
> >> >>
> >> >> Thank you,
> >> >> Gili
> >> >
> >> > Gili
> >> >
> >> > If you are using HttpClient 4.0 you can easily add support for content
> >> > compression by adding a few custom protocol interceptors.
> >> >
> >> > Please refer to this example for details:
> >> >
> >> > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpclient/trunk/module-client/src/examples/org/apache/http/examples/client/ClientGZipContentCompression.java
> >> >
> >> > Oleg
> >> >
> >> >
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> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >
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Re: HTTP compression
Posted by Sam Berlin <sb...@gmail.com>.
It might be interesting to have a small httpcomponents side project,
"HttpClient Extensions" that enable these small-but-useful features by
default. That way HttpClient can remain small, tidy and content
agnostic, while folks wanting a out-of-the-box solution can
additionally get the extensions.
Perhaps if such a structure existed for folks to submit patches
against, an extensions project could form without much work?
Sam
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 18:08 -0700, cowwoc wrote:
>> I am glad to see this works, but I am surprised that server to client
>> compression is not handled more seamlessly out-of-the-box.
>>
>> I was actually wondering about client to server GZip compression (that is,
>> compressing even the request).
>>
>> Gili
>>
>
> Gili,
>
> The request entity compression should be as trivial to implement as the
> response entity decompression.
>
> HttpClient is meant to be content agnostic, that is, any kind of content
> processing is out of project's scope.
>
> Oleg
>
>
>>
>> olegk wrote:
>> >
>> > On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 10:57 -0700, cowwoc wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I'm wondering why HTTP Client doesn't support HTTP compression
>> >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_compression). Will you seriously
>> >> entertain a RFE for this feature if I file one?
>> >>
>> >> Thank you,
>> >> Gili
>> >
>> > Gili
>> >
>> > If you are using HttpClient 4.0 you can easily add support for content
>> > compression by adding a few custom protocol interceptors.
>> >
>> > Please refer to this example for details:
>> >
>> > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpclient/trunk/module-client/src/examples/org/apache/http/examples/client/ClientGZipContentCompression.java
>> >
>> > Oleg
>> >
>> >
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>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
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Re: HTTP compression
Posted by Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org>.
On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 18:08 -0700, cowwoc wrote:
> I am glad to see this works, but I am surprised that server to client
> compression is not handled more seamlessly out-of-the-box.
>
> I was actually wondering about client to server GZip compression (that is,
> compressing even the request).
>
> Gili
>
Gili,
The request entity compression should be as trivial to implement as the
response entity decompression.
HttpClient is meant to be content agnostic, that is, any kind of content
processing is out of project's scope.
Oleg
>
> olegk wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 10:57 -0700, cowwoc wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm wondering why HTTP Client doesn't support HTTP compression
> >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_compression). Will you seriously
> >> entertain a RFE for this feature if I file one?
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >> Gili
> >
> > Gili
> >
> > If you are using HttpClient 4.0 you can easily add support for content
> > compression by adding a few custom protocol interceptors.
> >
> > Please refer to this example for details:
> >
> > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpclient/trunk/module-client/src/examples/org/apache/http/examples/client/ClientGZipContentCompression.java
> >
> > Oleg
> >
> >
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Re: HTTP compression
Posted by cowwoc <co...@bbs.darktech.org>.
I am glad to see this works, but I am surprised that server to client
compression is not handled more seamlessly out-of-the-box.
I was actually wondering about client to server GZip compression (that is,
compressing even the request).
Gili
olegk wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 10:57 -0700, cowwoc wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm wondering why HTTP Client doesn't support HTTP compression
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_compression). Will you seriously
>> entertain a RFE for this feature if I file one?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Gili
>
> Gili
>
> If you are using HttpClient 4.0 you can easily add support for content
> compression by adding a few custom protocol interceptors.
>
> Please refer to this example for details:
>
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpclient/trunk/module-client/src/examples/org/apache/http/examples/client/ClientGZipContentCompression.java
>
> Oleg
>
>
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Re: HTTP compression
Posted by Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org>.
On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 10:57 -0700, cowwoc wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering why HTTP Client doesn't support HTTP compression
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_compression). Will you seriously
> entertain a RFE for this feature if I file one?
>
> Thank you,
> Gili
Gili
If you are using HttpClient 4.0 you can easily add support for content
compression by adding a few custom protocol interceptors.
Please refer to this example for details:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpclient/trunk/module-client/src/examples/org/apache/http/examples/client/ClientGZipContentCompression.java
Oleg
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