[Python-Dev] OP_NO_COMPRESSION
Donald Stufft
donald at stufft.io
Sun Mar 23 16:58:38 CET 2014
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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