HTTP compression: Difference between revisions

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*[[Lempel–Ziv–Markov_chain_algorithm|lzma]] – compression based on (raw) LZMA is available in Opera 20, and in elinks via a compile-time option<ref>[http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/html/manual.html-chunked/ch01s07.html#CONFIG-LZMA elinks LZMA decompression]</ref>

*peerdist<ref>{{cite web|url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd304322%28v=PROT.10%29.aspx|title=[MS-PCCRTP]: Peer Content Caching and Retrieval: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Extensions|publisher=Microsoft|access-date=19 April 2014}}</ref> – Microsoft Peer Content Caching and Retrieval

*[[rsync]]<ref>{{cite web |title=rproxy: Protocol Definition for HTTP rsync Encoding |url=https://rproxy.samba.org/doc/protocol/protocol.html |website=rproxy.samba.org}}</ref> -– [[Delta_encoding#Delta_encoding_in_HTTP|delta encoding in HTTP]], implemented by a pair of ''rproxy'' proxies.

*xpress -– Microsoft compression protocol used by Windows&nbsp;8 and later for Windows Store application updates. [[LZ77_and_LZ78#LZ77|LZ77]]-based compression optionally using a Huffman encoding.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Hh554002.aspx|title=[MS-XCA]: Xpress Compression Algorithm|access-date=29 August 2015}}</ref>

*[[XZ Utils|xz]] -– LZMA2-based content compression, supported by a non-official Firefox patch;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wiki.mozilla.org/LZMA2_Compression|title=LZMA2 Compression - MozillaWiki|access-date=18 April 2014}}</ref> and fully implemented in mget since 2013-12-31.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/rockdaboot/mget|title=mget GitHub project page|website=[[GitHub]] |access-date=6 January 2017}}</ref>

==Servers that support HTTP compression==

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*[[Varnish (software)|Varnish]] – built-in. Works also with [[Edge Side Includes|ESI]]

*[https://line.github.io/armeria/ Armeria] – Serving pre-compressed files<ref>{{cite web|url=https://line.github.io/armeria/server-http-file.html#serving-pre-compressed-files|title=Serving static files part of Armeria's documentation}}</ref>

*[[NaviServer]] -– built-in, dynamic and static compression

Many [[content delivery network]]s also implement HTTP compression to improve speedy delivery of resources to end users.