RFC 7692
Compression Extensions for WebSocket, December 2015
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7692
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Abstract
This document defines a framework for creating WebSocket extensions that add compression functionality to the WebSocket Protocol. An extension based on this framework compresses the payload data portion of WebSocket data messages on a per-message basis using parameters negotiated during the opening handshake. This framework provides a general method for applying a compression algorithm to the contents of WebSocket messages. Each compression algorithm has to be defined in a document defining the extension by specifying the parameter negotiation and the payload transformation algorithm in detail. This document also specifies one specific compression extension using the DEFLATE algorithm.
For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.
For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.