• From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@g...>
• To: David <dlee@c...>
• Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:18:20 +0100

On 11.11.2010 15:39, David wrote:
> ...
> For example, in my 'day job' one of the products requires a data set of
> about 50MB of XML data.
> Transferring that over say an Edge connection or even 3G in a congested
> area like San Fransisco in text is a killer (hours).
> Using a binary encode compressed XML format reduces this to about 8MB
> which is still painful but under the boarder of killer. (20-40 minutes
> instead of hours).
>
> We were completely unable to adopt this technique to the Palm Web/OS due
> to the inability to do binary IO and efficient binary parsing.
> ...

Are you saying those do not support

   Content-Encoding: gzip

?

Best regards, Julian

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