I know automatic gzip compression occurs on web pages depending if the client and server can use it but does it work for binary file uploads too? So if I upload a .doc uncompressed it'll be compressed when transferred as long as it can be used?
I'm only asking as I currently use a upload page that requires file be pre-compressed to ZIP and it'd be nice to ditch it if it makes no difference.
EDIT: Looking at more info on it it looks like it's a compression technique designed for textual compression so probably useless for binary data?
I'm only asking as I currently use a upload page that requires file be pre-compressed to ZIP and it'd be nice to ditch it if it makes no difference.
EDIT: Looking at more info on it it looks like it's a compression technique designed for textual compression so probably useless for binary data?
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