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		joombar on Oct 18, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Oboe.js: reacting to Ajax/Rest quicker by not wait... Quick experiment says: Gzip can be written out as a stream ok. Can't comment on Apache but Node does it fine. Firefox's xhr fires progress events for gzipped content but not Chrome's. Looking to see if I can find a way round it.

joombar on Oct 18, 2013 [–]

In meantime, made a bug report: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=309092

jongleberry on Oct 19, 2013 | [–]

in my experience, you need to set flush to SYNC for it to work on chrome without manually flushing

joombar on Oct 19, 2013 | | [–]

Do you know how to do that from node?

Here's the little test service I wrote to stream out some gzipped content:

https://github.com/jimhigson/oboe.js/blob/master/test/stream...

jongleberry on Oct 19, 2013 | | [–]

You need to construct the stream with flush: require('zlib').Z_SYNC_FLUSH

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