HTTP compression: Difference between revisions

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The official list of tokens available to servers and client is maintained by IANA,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-parameters/http-parameters.xhtml#content-coding|title=Hypertext Transfer Protocol Parameters - HTTP Content Coding Registry|publisher=IANA|access-date=18 April 2014}}</ref> and it includes:

*br – [[Brotli]], a compression algorithm specifically designed for HTTP content encoding, defined in RFC 7932 and implemented in Mozillaall Firefoxmodern releasemajor 44 and Chromium release 50browsers.

*[[compress]] – UNIX "compress" program method (historic; deprecated in most applications and replaced by gzip or deflate)

*deflate – compression based on the [[DEFLATE|deflate]] algorithm (described in RFC 1951), a combination of the [[LZ77_and_LZ78#LZ77|LZ77]] algorithm and Huffman coding, wrapped inside the [[zlib]] data format (RFC 1950);