Accept-encoding: br on HTTPS connection

Category: Network / Connectivity
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 50)
Intent stage: None

Summary

Brotli (shortname "br") is used in WOFF 2.0 web fonts with great success. This is about making it available as an HTTP content-encoding method (e.g. Accept-Encoding: br). Advantages of Brotli over gzip: - significantly better compression density - comparable decompression speed

Standards & signals

Specification: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-alakuijala-brotli
Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
Safari: No signal
Web developers: Positive
Tracking bug: http://crbug.com/452335

Samples: https://github.com/google/brotli

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