Re: [Offtopic]: Compress Downloads on the fly

2017-01-28 Thread Rainer Dorsch
On Saturday 28 January 2017 21:21:10 Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hi David, > > On Saturday 28 January 2017 14:02:16 David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 28 Jan 2017 at 20:24:39 (+0100), Michael Luecke wrote: > > > On 01/28/2017 08:10 PM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > >I would like to download a large csv file f

Re: [Offtopic]: Compress Downloads on the fly

2017-01-28 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hi David, On Saturday 28 January 2017 14:02:16 David Wright wrote: > On Sat 28 Jan 2017 at 20:24:39 (+0100), Michael Luecke wrote: > > On 01/28/2017 08:10 PM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > >I would like to download a large csv file from a JavaScript intensive web > > >page. My client system has not en

Re: [Offtopic]: Compress Downloads on the fly

2017-01-28 Thread David Wright
On Sat 28 Jan 2017 at 20:24:39 (+0100), Michael Luecke wrote: > On 01/28/2017 08:10 PM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > >I would like to download a large csv file from a JavaScript intensive web > >page. My client system has not enough storage for the file, but if I could > >compress the file on the fly,

Re: [Offtopic]: Compress Downloads on the fly

2017-01-28 Thread Michael Luecke
On 01/28/2017 08:10 PM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: I would like to download a large csv file from a JavaScript intensive web page. My client system has not enough storage for the file, but if I could compress the file on the fly, things would work, since the file has a huge compression ratio. If y

Re: [Offtopic]: Compress Downloads on the fly

2017-01-28 Thread Hans
I believe, rsync can compress before transmision. And you can use rsync with ssl, so your transmission will be encrypted. Isn't this a big advantage? Best Hans > Has anybody an idea if I can pipe downloads in Firefox through bzip2? Has > anybody another idea how to implement an on the fly compr

[Offtopic]: Compress Downloads on the fly

2017-01-28 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hi, [I marked this post offtopic, since it is not Debian specific, it applies probably to any Linux system] I am wondering if somebody has a solution for this: I would like to download a large csv file from a JavaScript intensive web page. My client system has not enough storage for the file,