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Isn't that solved by this? https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/connection-compressi...

In theory. In practice nothing implements this.

But in any case, even if your client did support this and the server supported it, we still need HTTP for other things. I don't think it's particularly a "gotcha". HTTP is also stateless, which has lots of benefits for us.

but it's here?

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-j/8.0/en/connector-j-con...

And it's in the C API too...

MySqlConnector (the most popular .NET library for MySQL, and the one that I authored) has supported protocol compression for many years: https://github.com/mysql-net/MySqlConnector/issues/31.

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