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Ask HN: Why not Tar?
1 point by ChikkaChiChi on June 7, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
Most web server configurations include gzip compression to send files to the client. Wouldn't giving servers the ability to tar package cachable static files so that all those files came down in one request improve the user experience further?

Any ideas why this hasn't ever been done?




because the browser has to be abble to unpack it, and it's not the case ( with a tar)


That's already sort of happening in HTTP/1.1 with Keep-Alive and pipelining.




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