Accept-encoding: br on HTTPS connection

Network / Connectivity

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

Demo

Specification

Working draft or equivalent

Status in Chromium

Blink


Enabled by default (tracking bug) in:

  • Chrome for desktop release 50
  • Chrome for Android release 50
  • Chrome for iOS release 50
  • Android WebView release 50

Consensus & Standardization

After a feature ships in Chrome, the values listed here are not guaranteed to be up to date.

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compression,

Last updated on 2017-06-14