w3c / w3c/reporting

Reports compression

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Description

AFAICT, right now there's no way to define a compression scheme that will be applied to the reports. There is no HTTP mechanism for requests to perform content negotiation on the uploaded content.

It's probably better to define a compression scheme as part of the spec, have the server declare its preference for compression as part of the Report-To header, and have the browser apply that compression before sending the reports up.

/cc @mikewest

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Research direction

Start by reading the Reporting API specification and the issue's discussion of content negotiation, the Report-To header, and browser-side compression. Done would require an agreed compression scheme and a complete specification of how the server declares it and how reports are compressed before upload.

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Assessment

Domain
api
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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