compression only in one direction

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Fri Mar 8 10:03:22 EST 2013


On Thu, 7 Mar 2013, Markus Falb wrote:

> Would it not be useful to be able to compress only outbound traffic in
> such a situation?

Probably not - asymmetric transport options are pretty confusing and AFAIK
no client supports actually selecting them. I consider them to be a protocol
feature that seems nice in theory but isn't useful in practice.

-d


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