Brotli
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== Specifications == | == Specifications == | ||
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* [https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-alakuijala-brotli/ Brotli Compressed Data Format] (draft) | * [https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-alakuijala-brotli/ Brotli Compressed Data Format] (draft) | ||
* [https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-alakuijala-brotli-07 Earlier draft version (07)] | * [https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-alakuijala-brotli-07 Earlier draft version (07)] |
Revision as of 16:26, 19 May 2022
Brotli is a compressed data format developed by Google. It is designed for a high compression ratio, and fast decompression. When used as a web content compression encoding, it usesbr
in the Accept-Encoding
header so that a browser can signal support; this support is present in newer versions of Firefox and Chrome as of early 2016.
While the addition of this format to Firefox/Mozilla was still under discussion, there was a bit of a mini-flap over earlier proposals to use "bro" as the encoding identifier (and file extension for Brotli-compressed files), as this was deemed by some to be misogynistic. After some debate over bro
vs. brotli
vs. br
, the shorter of these was ultimately adopted.