On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 06:34:38AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.8.15.5 > Severity: wishlist > > Gentlemen, it turns out the initial part of an apt-get update, > the part which sends > > GET /debian/dists/unstable/InRelease HTTP/1.1 > Host: ... > Connection: keep-alive > Cache-Control: no-cache > Pragma: no-cache > User-Agent: Debian APT-HTTP/1.3 (0.8.15.5) > > (as seen in tcpflow(1)), does not get a compressed result. Even though > it is only a 150 KB reply, but why not enable compression and just send > a third of that?
We do not have any support for compressed replies (only for replies containing compressed files, ending in a compressor-specific file extension), adding that would need a lot of work for not much gain. Yes, we can go down from currently ~ 200 KiB to 61 KiB, but I don't think that's going to be a huge advantage. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. Be friendly, do not top-post, and follow RFC 1855 "Netiquette". - If you don't I might ignore you.
