[JDEV] GZipping Jabber Messages

[Daniel Veillard]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:44:50PM -0700, Peter Millard wrote:
> I agree that in most cases bandwidth is cheap, but I could see a few cases
> where it's not:
> 
> 1) Cell Phones
> 2) "Online" PDA's  (like a Palm VII or something..)
> 
> 
> In both these cases it might be nice for the clients to be able to conserve
> as much bandwidth as possible..
> 
> Re: Having clients + servers "negotiate" this option, I would think they
> should connect to a different port (like SSL does) or something like that.

  Well, someone remembers the WAP disaster "We will rewrite everything
from the level 2 of the network stack up to the application layer because
our bandwidth is scarce" ? This really didn't helped them.
  Sounds a good way to loose a lot of energy, resources and money.

Daniel

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