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Wombat
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Why isn't gzip compression on by default on servers? Cannot think of any case, where this is what the user wishes?

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    Slow servers or maybe incompatible rest clients aka legacy code?
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    On the fly gz compression doesn't usually give the result size, e.g. no progress bar (apache has an option to serve precompressed files)
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    @ilikeglue @lnplum all good. But is this still valid in 2019?
  • 1
    @Wombat time truly flies by fast, yesterday was 2018 and now I check and it's already 2019, wild.
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    @JoshBent developing stuff for the future! 😅👌
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