Re: [Lynx-dev] ANN: lynx2.9.2

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, Jun 01, 2024 at 07:59:07PM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> Thomas Dickey wrote in
>  <Zlpf6RZ52lW3at4L@prl-debianold-64.jexium-island.net>:
>  |The current version of lynx is 2.9.2
>  ...
>  |* adapt special case of gzip decompression in 2.8.9dev.12 to brotli, \
>  |to handle
>  |  downloads from websites which support "br" (report by Rajeev V Pillai) \
>  ...
> 
> That made me look .. i see IsCompressionFormat() does not handle
> the zstd that is more and more used in the open source software
> world, for package formats etc, and supported by webservers, too
> (ie the wonderful lighttpd i use since 1.4.59 in 2021).

actually - for websites so far, this seems to be used only by facebook/etc.

I did notice it, considered whether to delay another week to do this.

But since I'm not aware of any useful websites relying upon zstd,
I put it off for "soon" (patches will be duly considered).
It also would help to see websites using the feature.

2.9.2 is basically fixes prompted by feedback from 2.9.1 :-)
 
> Would you be interested in adding support for that?
> If i write a patch?

sure - there's enough in Lynx now for gzip and brotli that the patter should
be easy to follow.

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
https://invisible-island.net

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