[MOBY-dev] getting RDF resources in the compressed format

[Paul Gordon]

I believe the solution we agreed upon was that if the client sends an 
"Accept-encoding" HTTP header with x-gzip, we'd have the server send 
gzip'ed if it finds it.  I use this mechanism all the time for sending 
big HTML files...

Martin Senger wrote:
> Eddie, Paul, Mark et al,
>
> Because of the new implementation of the registry cache (written by Eddie)
> that uses RDF, the RDF resources will be more used (also from the
> Dashboard). To get them fast is, therefore, a priority.
>
> I remember that when the new method (to get URLs of the registry resources)
> was added to the BioMoby API we had discussed how to deliver these resources
> in a compressed format, as well. Has anybody remember how it was proposed to
> work? Because we definitely need to compress it now.
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
>
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