Everything about HTTP compression

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: HTTP compressionA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Computer NetworksThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: Potential benefits of delta encoding and data compression for HTTPCited 63 times
4. Go sideways: BrotliA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: BREACHA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Potential benefits of delta encoding and data compression for HTTP

  Jeffrey C. Mogul, Fred Douglis, Anja Feldmann · 1997 · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review · 63 citations

• Errata for “Potential benefits of delta encoding and data compression for HTTP”

  Jeffrey C. Mogul, Fred Douglis, Anja Feldmann · 1998 · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review · 3 citations

• Comparison of HTTP 2 Header Compression Methods

  Central Ukrainian National Technical University, Olexandr Ulichev, Olexandr Revniuk · 2024 · National Interagency Scientific and Technical Collection of Works. Design, Production and Exploitation of Agricultural Machines · 0 citations

• http://www.esciencecentral.org/journals/peroneal-nerve-compression-in-figure-skaters-2329-910X.1000102.php?aid=12908

  Antonios G Angoules · 2013 · Clinical Research on Foot & Ankle · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Computer NetworksAndrew S. Tanenbaum, John David Wetherall · 1981
• Computer networkingJames F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross · 1900
• Data Communications and NetworkingBehrouz A. Forouzan, Catherine Ann Coombs · 2000
• Communication networksJean Walrand · 2010
• Air ForceUnited States. Army Air Forces., Air Force Association. · 1943
• TCP/IP IllustratedW. Richard Stevens, Kevin R. Fall · 1993
• Distortion controlJohn P. Stewart · 1989
• Responsive Mobile DesignPhil Dutson · 2015

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

• Brotli Brotli (/ˈbrɒtli/ BROT-lee; from Alemannic German: Brötli [ˈb̥røːtli]) is a lossless data compression algorithm developed by Jyrki Alakuijala and Zoltán…
• BREACH BREACH (a backronym: Browser Reconnaissance and Exfiltration via Adaptive Compression of Hypertext) is a security vulnerability against HTTPS when using…
• HTTP/2 HTTP/2 (originally named HTTP/2.0) is a major revision of the HTTP network protocol used by the World Wide Web. It was derived from the earlier experimental…
• CRIME CRIME (Compression Ratio Info-leak Made Easy) is a security vulnerability in HTTPS and SPDY protocols that utilize compression, which can leak the content…
• Zlib zlib (/ˈziːlɪb/ or "zeta-lib", /ˈziːtəˌlɪb/) is a data format and a lossless data compression software library created by Jean-Loup Gailly and Mark Adler…
• HTTP HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is an application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information…
• Mod deflate mod_deflate is an optional module for the Apache HTTP Server, Apache v2.0 and later. It is based on Deflate lossless data compression algorithm that uses…
• SPDY SPDY (pronounced "speedy") is an obsolete open-specification communication protocol developed for transporting web content. SPDY became the basis for HTTP/2…