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Zstandard compression format for Content-Encoding #168

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nidhijaju opened this issue Apr 13, 2023 · 7 comments
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Zstandard compression format for Content-Encoding #168

nidhijaju opened this issue Apr 13, 2023 · 7 comments
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from: Google Proposed, edited, or co-edited by Google. from: Meta Proposed, edited, or co-edited by Meta. position: support topic: http Spec relates to the HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) family of protocols topic: networking venue: IETF Document is published by the IETF, but it's unclear if it's from a more specific body there.

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nidhijaju commented Apr 13, 2023 •
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Title of the spec

Zstd Content-Encoding

URL to the spec

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8878

URL to the spec's repository

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Explainer URL

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aDyUw4mAzRdLyZyXpVgWvO-eLpc4ERz7I_7VDIPo9Hc/edit?usp=sharing

TAG Design Review URL

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Mozilla standards-positions issue URL

mozilla/standards-positions#775

WebKit Bugzilla URL

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279815

Radar URL

rdar://28546450

Description

Zstandard, or "zstd", is a data compression mechanism, described in RFC8878, providing high compression ratios. The proposal is to add "zstd" to the tokens in the Accept-Encoding header, and decompress with Zstandard when the token is seen in the Content-Encoding header. It is anticipated to make pages load faster and reduce serving costs, by reducing CPU and/or bandwidth consumption, especially for dynamic content.

Chrome is currently evaluating implementing this, and is interested in other browsers' position on the specification.
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annevk commented May 12, 2023

Hey @nidhijaju thanks for your request, we'll have a look at "zstd". You may or may not be familiar with this, but currently Content-Encoding is rather poorly specified and has a number of interoperability issues. whatwg/fetch#716 goes into this. Have you looked at tackling that as part of adding new features to it?

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This may depend on support by the network stacks below WebKit, but additional content encodings that offer better compression can potentially lead to improvements in user visible performance. That is worth exploring, and measuring the impact in the real-world while evangelizing to increase deployment offers an opportunity to deliver wins for end users.

As such, I propose we label this with position: support 7 days from now.

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krassx commented Aug 12, 2024 •
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Hi, is there any progress on bringing the Zstandard support to WebKit and consequently to Safari? According to caniuse, Safari is the only one (of major browsers) lacking support for zstd at the moment of writing.

I've been evaluating zstd for quite a while and it seems to be a good replacement in various scenarios for gzip, but the absence of support in all major browsers prevent switching to it.

Thank you in advance.

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Hi @krassx! We continue to evaluate bringing Zstandard support to WebKit and are excited to hear that it may be delivering user-visible benefits for loading performance. Thanks for the note of support, feedback on what would be most helpful and beneficial is always appreciated!

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tats-u commented Sep 17, 2024

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279815

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