1477516 - Support zstd in Transfer-Encoding

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, enhancement, P3)

Description

[brunoais]

Now that zstd is registered in IANA: https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/zstd

Uses BSD license: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/77068a8447ee58e3543b5190f438a725c94f6426/LICENSE#L1

Has significant better compression ratio with better speeds:
http://facebook.github.io/zstd/#benchmarks
Alternative analysis in detail: https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2017/03/07/better-compression-with-zstandard/

I believe servers could start using it as a transfer encoding to speed up transfer of traffic.
It seems to be specially useful to transfer javascript and CSS files over the network.

Comment 1

[brunoais]

jduell, please confirm if I set the component right.

Comment 2

[(no longer active)]

Clearing the needinfo request since there is no comment explaining what information is being requested from me.

Comment 3

[brunoais]

Am I supposed to needinfo Juel? He hasn't answered in more than 1 month... Maybe you can answer.
Is this bug well explained and well configured?

Comment 4

[(no longer active)]

You are not supposed to needinfo anyone when you don't have a specific question from them which they may know the specific answer to.  In this case, there is no further action you have to take after filing the bug. :-)

Comment 5

[brunoais]

I thought you knew the answer. I find it upsetting no answer after 1 month needinfoed....
Thank you anyway.

Comment 6

[(no longer active)]

If you mean the answer to comment 1, yes the component is right.  Sorry for not being more explicit about that...

Comment 7

[Kershaw Chang [:kershaw]]

I'll put this into our backlog for now.

Comment 8

[brunoais]

(In reply to :Ehsan Akhgari from comment #6)
> If you mean the answer to comment 1, yes the component is right.  Sorry for
> not being more explicit about that...

No worries

(In reply to Kershaw Chang [:kershaw] from comment #7)
> I'll put this into our backlog for now.

Thank you Kershaw. I wish I had the time to work on this myself....

Comment 9

[Kershaw Chang [:kershaw]]

(In reply to brunoais from comment #8)
> (In reply to :Ehsan Akhgari from comment #6)
> > If you mean the answer to comment 1, yes the component is right.  Sorry for
> > not being more explicit about that...
> 
> No worries
> 
> (In reply to Kershaw Chang [:kershaw] from comment #7)
> > I'll put this into our backlog for now.
> 
> Thank you Kershaw. I wish I had the time to work on this myself....

Feel free to needinfo me or jduell again if you think this needs to be done soon.

Comment 10

[Felix Handte]

Hey all,

I'm one of the engineers on Zstd. Just wanted to chime in and say we'd love to see Zstd support in Firefox, etc. If there's anything I can do to help make that happen, please let me know!

Comment 11

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

The dependency is backwards. Bug 1301878 is where adding zstd as third party library in libxul would be happening.