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Re: [hybi] deflate-stream and masking

"Andy Green (林安廸)" <andy@warmcat.com> Wed, 22 June 2011 09:18 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] deflate-stream and masking
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On 06/22/2011 12:31 AM, Somebody in the thread at some point said:

> the problem is more than just not using it (I have no plans of
> implementing it for my server).
>
> It is the only exemplar of an extension we have in the specification
> and as an example to follow it is terrible!  It does not follow any of

I don't think we even need to go there... "performance is worthless on 
masked data" should be enough to see something needs to happen somewhere 
about it.

-Andy

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