Re: Warn that --compression=gzip is not enforced

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 6:48 AM Tim Rühsen <tim.ruehsen@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On 31.07.21 13:39, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> >>>>>> "TR" == Tim Rühsen <tim.ruehsen@gmx.de> writes:
> > TR> If you know that the server sends uncompressed content, you can
> > TR> compress it yourself on-the-fly to avoid excessive disk space usage.
> > TR> At least it works for single files:
> > TR>   wget -O- <URL> | gzip > radio.csv.gz
> >
> > That's nice but like https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/7516# I am
> > interested in wget adding a new option, providing users a guaranteed way
> > to prevent network usage charges caused by no way to tell wget "only
> > agree to download if the server agrees to compress."
> >
>
> I opened an issue for wget2 for discussion. I agree with the curl
> maintainers PoV that this is a corner case and that implementing it may
> come with a large code complexity.
>
> https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2/-/issues/556

Another downside is side channel attacks when using compression with
HTTPS. BREACH, CRIME and friends.

(Sorry to comment here. GitLab auth does not work for me again).

Jeff