Re: Transport level compression

[Arvola Chan <arvola@tibco.com>]

Thanks Chris.

My comments are inline.

-Arvola

-----Original Message-----
From: christopher ferris <chris.ferris@east.sun.com>
To: Arvola Chan <arvola@tibco.com>
Cc: ebxml-cppa@lists.oasis-open.org <ebxml-cppa@lists.oasis-open.org>
Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: Transport level compression


>Arvola Chan wrote:
>> 
>> HTTP allows transport level compression through the use of the
>> Content-Encoding entity-header. The permissible compression
>> algorithms include gzip, compress, and deflate.
>> 
>> Should the use of transport level compression be specifiable in
>> the CPA when the transport is HTTP?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> -Arvola
>> 
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>
>Arvola,
>
>This is an interesting question. I would say that this is probably
>a good idea. However, we shouldn't limit to Content-Encoding.
>Seems to me that what a CPP/A should define (at least for HTTP)
>is equivalent to the HTTP Accept* request headers that a client
>uses for HTTP requests to inform the origin server what its
>capabilities and/or preferences are.

<arvola>
I agree in principle.
</arvola>

>
>It also seems to me that one could apply the Accept headers
>abstractly to any transport protocol. Thus, something like:
>
><c:Transport transportId=".." xmlns:c="...">
> <c:SendingProtocol version="1.1">HTTP</c:SendingProtocol>
> <c:SendingProtocol version="1.1">SMTP</c:SendingProtocol>
> <c:ReceivingProtocol version="1.1">HTTP</c:ReceivingProtocol>
> <c:Accept c:mediaType="..."/> <!-- zero or more -->
> <c:AcceptEncoding c:contentCoding="..."/> <!-- zero or more -->
> <c:AcceptLanguage xml:lang="..."/> <!-- zero or more -->
> <c:AcceptCharset charset="..."/> <!-- zero or more -->
> ...
></c:Transport>
>

<arvola>
Unfortuantely, contentCoding is applicable to HTTP only. SMTP /
S/MIME has content transfer encoding but that is limited to 7bit,
8bit, binary, quoted-printable, and base64.
</arvola>

>Comments?
>
>Chris