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Resolution: Unresolved
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Description
While studying MGNLCACHE-192 (Javascript resources not gzip compressed due to misconfiguration) for 5.5.8 release notes, I sort of glued me eyes to the br value in the Accept-Encoding header.
The abbreviation stands for Brotli - "... a data format specification for data streams compressed with a specific combination of the general-purpose LZ77 lossless compression algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modelling." (from Wikipedia), developed by Google (see Zoltan Szabadka's blog post Introducing Brotli: a new compression algorithm for the internet).
Some additional secondary literature suggests that for packing and HTTPS the Brotli compression may be better than gzip:
- Timothy Kadlec: Understanding Brotli's Potential
- Mike: Yes, Brotli can compress faster than gzip
- Sam Saffron: The current state of Brotli compression
Both the standard and modern browser support seem to be present for Brotli:
See also: