[Python-Dev] OP_NO_COMPRESSION

[Donald Stufft]

On Mar 23, 2014, at 11:55 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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Ah, maybe he told me that in IRC then, I actually know him and was arguing with him about
it there. Sorry I got my streams crossed.

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