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LZMA2 Compression: Difference between revisions
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The [http://tukaani.org/xz/format.html xz file format] is quite flexible and extensible. This is no good for interoperability between HTTP clients unless everyone agrees what features must be supported by a client advertising “Accept-Encoding: xz”. The patch for Firefox supports only the following: | The [http://tukaani.org/xz/format.html xz file format] is quite flexible and extensible. This is no good for interoperability between HTTP clients unless everyone agrees what features must be supported by a client advertising “Accept-Encoding: xz”. The patch for Firefox supports only the following: | ||
* The only supported filter is LZMA2 compression | * The only supported filter is LZMA2 compression | ||
* Maximum dictionary size of 32Mb (this is currently configurable with a pref, but needs to be standardized) | * Maximum dictionary size of 32Mb, enough for the command xz -8 but not xz -9 (this is currently configurable with a pref, but needs to be standardized) | ||
* The only supported integrity checks are CRC32, CRC64 or none | * The only supported integrity checks are CRC32, CRC64 or none | ||