[e2e] Compression of web pages

[Kostas Pentikousis]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Vernon Schryver wrote:

  | You did mention WAP.

I remember when people were told that HTML and HTTP was too verbose, and
that a more "optimized", compressed, binary encoding would be much more
efficient for wireless devices connected through a low bandwidth network.

Ueno et al. presented a very illustrative paper in Networking 2002
(http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/2345/23450527.htm)
explaining why WAP 2.0 is based on TCP/HTTP
(http://www.wapforum.org/what/technical.htm)


Best regards,

Kostas
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Kostas Pentikousis @ CS Stony Brook @ http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~kostas