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by wvenable 2884 days ago
Except that the data stream is, I should hope, compressed so that the data is actually packed into a format optimized for size.
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yitosda 2884 days ago
Not necessarily, and even so not for free.

(Client must specify compression support)

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wvenable 2884 days ago
Most clients support it implicitly; you probably have to go out of your way to get an uncompressed stream. Now compressing a verbose text string is not optimal but given the past attempts I'd hesitate against using a pre-packed format. Historically that has not worked out well. Compressing the text format is ultimately the worse-is-better solution.
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jwilk 2884 days ago
They are using libcurl, for which you need to request compression explicitly:

https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING.html

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