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Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon.

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Mayayana,

>  I don't understand the question. You seem to
> be conflating encryption with compression.

Whut ?   Aren't those just two words for the same thing ? <drool> :-p

But no, not really.  Although sometimes the only difference between the two 
seems to be a secret key. :-)


The question is, what can I/someone *do* with data thats still compressesed 
with (something like) gzip ?  Its rather useless in that form, don't you 
think ?

The only thing I can think of is when the program itself does not (want to) 
use the data, but only acts as a go-between (think gateway proxy.  It makes 
no sense to decompres only to directly after it have to recompress again), 
and/or to save it for a next request of the same data (a buffering proxy).

Than again, when being in such a position it would be rather logical to also 
put some kind of virus/malware/whatever scanner there, which would ofcourse 
mean the data also needs to be decompressed.

So, I'm wondering why WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1 returns raw, still 
compressed data when the usefullness of it seems to be nil, and *always* 
needs to be handled by yet another (non-existing in VBS as far as I know) 
object ?    It only seems to serve to increase the complexity of the program 
(no matter which language its written in) ...

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


-- Origional message:
"Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> wrote in message 
news:orlpdh$19se$1@gioia.aioe.org...
> "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> wrote
>
> | But I'm wondering: when is getting your hands on raw
> | transport-compressed/encoded data usefull ?   Can't really think of a
> | situation, or it must be a rather contrived one.
> |
>
>  I don't understand the question. You seem to
> be conflating encryption with compression. The
> former is for security, as I'm sure you know. The
> latter is only a courtesy to the server, minimizing
> the bytes they have to transfer. Basically saying,
> "I can take a smaller package and unpack it on my
> end, if that's easier for you."
>
> (Though in these days of 1 MB worth of javascript
> and 5 MB worth of video ads in a webpage, I don't
> feel very sympathetic about server load on commercial
> pages.)
>
> 

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Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-11 13:54 +0200
  Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-11 09:11 -0400
    Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-11 17:45 +0200
      Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-11 18:24 +0200
        Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-11 12:39 -0400
          Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-11 18:59 +0200
            Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-11 14:53 -0400
              Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-11 22:22 +0200
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-11 17:45 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-12 09:25 +0200
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-12 10:17 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-12 19:19 +0200
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-12 14:17 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-12 23:09 +0200
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-13 12:28 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-13 14:26 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-13 18:23 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-14 09:54 +0200

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