Implement Compression Extensions

Draft RFC: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-hybi-permessage-compression-17

Work remaining:

• Add fields to Dialer for specifying compression options.

• Add fields to Upgrader for specifying compression options.

• Add compression negotiation Upgrader.

• Add compression negotiation to Dialer.

• Add function to enable/disable write compression:

  // EnableWriteCompression enables and disables write compression of
  // subsequent text and binary messages. This function is a noop if
  // compression was not negotiated with the peer.
  func (c *Conn) EnableWriteCompression(enable bool) {
         c.enableWriteCompression = enable
  }
  

[cenkalti]

Is there anyone working on this?

@cenkalti, not yet, but soon.

[fancycode]

Has there been any progress on this?

There has not been progress on this.

[fancycode]

Ok, I will probably have something ready for a first review early next week.

@fancycode Please give an overview of your design before doing a large amount of work.

[fancycode]

Sure, I will write a couple of notes later today or tomorrow. For now progress is pretty much stuck with some missing functionality in "compress/flate" (https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=7836) which prevents supporting compression for fragmented packages...

[arvenil]

https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=7836 is marked as fixed now, any chance for update on this?

[cenkalti]

I do not plan to implement this feature.

[euforia]

Is this implementation in progress? If so where can I follow?

@euforia The implementation is not in progress.

[gevans]

👍 We'd love to see this implemented and posted a $100 bounty on Bountysource.

[euforia]

I'll try to put it on my docket. Will keep you guys posted.