[Python-Dev] OP_NO_COMPRESSION

[Donald Stufft]

On Mar 23, 2014, at 11:46 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 11:37:25 -0400
> Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>> 
>> I already did open an issue and write a patch :)
>> 
>> There’s someone on that issue saying that flipping that without a way to flip it back
>> would break their application.
> 
> You're right, I had forgotten about that :-)
> 
> I'd be surprised if disabling compression could altogether break an
> application. It may make it less efficient, though, if it relied on TLS
> to compress data for it (which doesn't sound like a good thing to rely
> on, anyway).
> 
> Regards
> 
> Antoine.
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I tend to agree about that, but I was mostly echoing the fact that they’ve expressed
that sentiment. Without SSLContext I couldn’t think of a reasonable way to enable
them to turn it on/off that didn’t involve a whole new API just for some versions of 2.7.
This seemed to me like a wholly worse idea than back porting SSLContext :/

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