Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 20:00:03 -0500
Message-Id: <199703280100.UAA24587@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
CC: opendos AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970327111151.186H-100000@capslock.com>
	(mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca)
Subject: Re: [opendos] Wishlist v2.0


> then.  The only thing that really needs to be thought about is
> how the compression/decompression of the HTML is going to work to
> save space.  The browser will probably have to be modified to
> accept a type something like:
> 
> Content-type: octet-stream/html-zip
> 
> Or something like that.  Then UNZIP is called transparently and
> the page is viewed.
> 
> What does everyone else think? 

The HTTP standard already defines a way of compressing data.
You'd see headers like this:

Content-type: text/html
Content-transfer-encoding: x-gzip