[Python-Dev] OP_NO_COMPRESSION

[Mark Lawrence]

On 23/03/2014 15:46, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 11:37:25 -0400
> Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>>
>> I already did open an issue and write a patch :)
>>
>> There’s someone on that issue saying that flipping that without a way to flip it back
>> would break their application.
>
> You're right, I had forgotten about that :-)
>
> I'd be surprised if disabling compression could altogether break an
> application. It may make it less efficient, though, if it relied on TLS
> to compress data for it (which doesn't sound like a good thing to rely
> on, anyway).
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.

I've looked at the issue and can't find any such comment.  The closest 
is from http://bugs.python.org/issue20994#msg214246 "Also some users 
will absolutely want to manually re-enable compression, please don't 
disable it entirely."  Chinese whispers? :)

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what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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