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by mattrobenolt 1268 days ago
In theory. In practice nothing implements this.

But in any case, even if your client did support this and the server supported it, we still need HTTP for other things. I don't think it's particularly a "gotcha". HTTP is also stateless, which has lots of benefits for us.

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MySqlConnector (the most popular .NET library for MySQL, and the one that I authored) has supported protocol compression for many years: https://github.com/mysql-net/MySqlConnector/issues/31.
but it's here?

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-j/8.0/en/connector-j-con...

And it's in the C API too...