[elinks-dev] Force protocol.http.compression = 1 again?

[Jonas Fonseca]

Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon at iki.fi> wrote Sun, Feb 24, 2008:
> Commit d4cec950ecadb0c19206f28b0bf9c6d8992bc1e7 added
> to src/protocol/http/http.c:
> 
> #if !(defined(CONFIG_GZIP) || defined(CONFIG_BZIP2))
> #define COMP_NOTE "\nNote that this ELinks version has been compiled without compression\n" \
> 		"support anyway. This option will have no effect.\n"
> #else
> #define COMP_NOTE
> #endif
> 	INIT_OPT_BOOL("protocol.http", N_("Enable on-the-fly compression (experimental)"),
> 		"compression", 0, 1,
> 		N_("If enabled, the capability to receive compressed content (gzip and/or\n"
> 		"bzip2) is announced to the server, which usually sends the reply\n"
> 		"compressed, thus saving some bandwidth at slight CPU expense.\n"
> 		"HOWEVER, please note that the ELinks implementation is unfortunately very\n"
> 		"buggy and you may see incomplete pages, pages with garbage instead of\n"
> 		"content, etc.!" COMP_NOTE)),

Wouldn't it have been easier to just leave out the option completely?

> Anyway, instead of putting the both versions of the whole string
> inside #if, I'd like to revert this commit altogether.
> With Witek's latest changes, compression is not so experimental
> any more, I think.  Can you find any site where it still fails?

I haven't tested it personally, but I think it is the right thing to do.

-- 
Jonas Fonseca