Subject: Re: Disabling compression by API?

Re: Disabling compression by API?

From: Tor Arntsen <tor_at_spacetec.no>
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 12:54:54 +0200

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 20:09, Jose Baars <peut_at_peut.org> wrote:
>  Op 10/8/2010 7:53 PM, Daniel Stenberg schreef:
>>
>> As for what default to use, I would love to hear some more opinions!
>
> My vote is for default on. As compression usually will shrink the data to
> about
> half, [...]

Shrink to half is normally only true for text.
Almost all the data I transfer is some kind of binary data, and it
doesn't compress nearly as well. The satellite data I transfer
compresses somewhere between 0 % (SAR data) and 10-15% (optical).

-Tor
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