From: barmar@alum.mit.edu   
      
   In article ,   
    Glen Herrmannsfeldt  wrote:   
      
   > Barry Margolin wrote:   
   > (snip)   
   >   
   > > Maybe we're confused about the chunking.  He said he's gzipping the   
   > > data, then sending that data in chunks.  I assume he meant that he's   
   > > breaking the gzip'ed file down into even smaller chunks.  But since gzip   
   > > is a stream compression mechanism, I don't think you can decompress it   
   > > if you process them out of order.  So losing a chunk means the rest of   
   > > that file is lost.   
   >   
   > It sounds like it isn't stream data, but many separate   
   > data items.  (Such as stock prices on a stock ticker.)   
   >   
   > The original post didn't make it clear if it was gzip'ed as   
   > a continuous stream or in individual packets of some   
   > (unknown to us) size.   
      
   But he said that he's first gzipping, then sending chunks.  Most of the   
   responses seem to be assuming that he's first making chunks containing   
   useful pieces (e.g. a single stock ticker item), gzipping that, and then   
   sending it.   
      
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   Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu   
   Arlington, MA   
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