[Python-Dev] OP_NO_COMPRESSION (original) (raw)

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Sun Mar 23 16:52:37 CET 2014

On Mar 23, 2014, at 11:46 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 11:37:25 -0400 Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

I already did open an issue and write a patch :) There’s someone on that issue saying that flipping that without a way to flip it back would break their application. You're right, I had forgotten about that :-) I'd be surprised if disabling compression could altogether break an application. It may make it less efficient, though, if it relied on TLS to compress data for it (which doesn't sound like a good thing to rely on, anyway). Regards Antoine.

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I tend to agree about that, but I was mostly echoing the fact that they’ve expressed that sentiment. Without SSLContext I couldn’t think of a reasonable way to enable them to turn it on/off that didn’t involve a whole new API just for some versions of 2.7. This seemed to me like a wholly worse idea than back porting SSLContext :/

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