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Re: NSE libraries for compression


From: Toni Ruottu <toni.ruottu () iki fi>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:24:29 +0200

For example: "All packages are in gzip format and are preceded by four
bytes that specify the size of the package to come." See
http://wiki.wesnoth.org/MultiplayerServerWML#Multiplayer_Server_WML
for details.

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:58 PM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 09:22:19PM +0200, Toni Ruottu wrote:
  hello

Some protocols compress the payload with gzip or maybe bzip2. Are
there NSE libraries for doing the compressing?

No, there are not. It's a good idea though. What specifically do you
have in mind? All I can think of right now is compressed
Content-Encodings in http.lua.

David Fifield

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