Bug#529271: Does not support compressed websites.

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Wed May 20 06:44:25 UTC 2009


On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:22:35AM -0300, Gustavo Noronha wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 14:38 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> > It seems that this was an error on the ubuntuone.com server which send
> > gzip encoded content, although the client did not explicitly request
> > it (the server was thus violating a "SHOULD" of RFC2616).
> 
> Yeah, I have read that before and I agree with this, but even then,
> there are many more broken servers out in the wild =(.
> 
> > But I still would like to have gzip support in webkit, as it can improve
> > experience on slow connections.
> 
> Yeah. We want to have that functionality built into soup, though.

Shouldn't the bug be reassigned?

Mike





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