Re: LANG: VRML 1.x Binary Format Proposal

Scott Nelson ([email protected])
Wed, 31 May 1995 19:54:34 -0700

>
>Unless the browsers could understand gzip "natively", essentially as
>just another encoding. Then there's no fire-up-the-decompressor
>overhead. The algorithms are public domain and I understand they're
>pretty straightforward.
>

There are several encoding methods going through the RFC process
now which will allow this intermediate compress/decompression.

The following are examples of how the (new) system will work from

Roman Czyborra <[email protected]>

which uses the following kinds of syntax:

HTTP:

Content-Encoding: x-gzip
Content-Type: x-world/x-vrml
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary

SMTP:

Content-Type: application/gzipped; object=x-world/x-vmrl
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

Thus everything is transperent to the user and the data provider.

SDN

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