Support for compression in websockets
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enhancement
- Dominant language
- Ada
- Stars
- 162
- Forks
- 45
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Description
The websockets protocol has an optional extension for compressing data per-message.
Sec-WebSocket-Extensions | permessage-deflate
I think this is not supported by AWS yet, is there some work on this planned ?
Thanks
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the AWS WebSocket implementation and its handling of the Sec-WebSocket-Extensions header. Determine the scope of per-message compression support described in the issue, then identify how completion would be verified for compressed WebSocket messages.
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Assessment
- Domain
- networking
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100