get rid of brotli due to poor support; closes #73

some reverse-proxies expect plaintext replies, and
we don't have a brotli decompressor to satisfy this

additionally, because brotli is https-gated (thx google),
it was already an impractical mess anyways

the sfx is now 7 KiB larger

copyparty/httpcli.py

@@ -2827,11 +2827,11 @@ def tx_file(self, req_path: str) -> bool:
         logtail = ""
 
         #
-        # if request is for foo.js, check if we have foo.js.{gz,br}
+        # if request is for foo.js, check if we have foo.js.gz
 
         file_ts = 0.0
         editions: dict[str, tuple[str, int]] = {}
-        for ext in ["", ".gz", ".br"]:
+        for ext in ("", ".gz"):
             try:
                 fs_path = req_path + ext
                 st = bos.stat(fs_path)
@@ -2876,12 +2876,7 @@ def tx_file(self, req_path: str) -> bool:
             x.strip()
             for x in self.headers.get("accept-encoding", "").lower().split(",")
         ]
-        if ".br" in editions and "br" in supported_editions:
-            is_compressed = True
-            selected_edition = ".br"
-            fs_path, file_sz = editions[".br"]
-            self.out_headers["Content-Encoding"] = "br"
-        elif ".gz" in editions:
+        if ".gz" in editions:
             is_compressed = True
             selected_edition = ".gz"
             fs_path, file_sz = editions[".gz"]
@@ -2897,13 +2892,8 @@ def tx_file(self, req_path: str) -> bool:
             is_compressed = False
             selected_edition = "plain"
 
-        try:
-            fs_path, file_sz = editions[selected_edition]
-            logmsg += "{} ".format(selected_edition.lstrip("."))
-        except:
-            # client is old and we only have .br
-            # (could make brotli a dep to fix this but it's not worth)
-            raise Pebkac(404)
+        fs_path, file_sz = editions[selected_edition]
+        logmsg += "{} ".format(selected_edition.lstrip("."))
 
         #
         # partial

copyparty/httpsrv.py

@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ def _build_statics(self) -> None:
             for fn in df:
                 ap = absreal(os.path.join(dp, fn))
                 self.statics.add(ap)
-                if ap.endswith(".gz") or ap.endswith(".br"):
+                if ap.endswith(".gz"):
                     self.statics.add(ap[:-3])
 
     def set_netdevs(self, netdevs: dict[str, Netdev]) -> None:

copyparty/web/md.js

@@ -512,13 +512,6 @@ dom_navtgl.onclick = function () {
     redraw();
 };
 
-if (!HTTPS && location.hostname != '127.0.0.1') try {
-    ebi('edit2').onclick = function (e) {
-        toast.err(0, "the fancy editor is only available over https");
-        return ev(e);
-    }
-} catch (ex) { }
-
 if (sread('hidenav') == 1)
     dom_navtgl.onclick();
 

docs/devnotes.md

@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ if you don't need all the features, you can repack the sfx and save a bunch of s
 * `269k` after `./scripts/make-sfx.sh re no-cm no-hl`
 
 the features you can opt to drop are
-* `cm`/easymde, the "fancy" markdown editor, saves ~82k
+* `cm`/easymde, the "fancy" markdown editor, saves ~89k
 * `hl`, prism, the syntax hilighter, saves ~41k
 * `fnt`, source-code-pro, the monospace font, saves ~9k
 * `dd`, the custom mouse cursor for the media player tray tab, saves ~2k

scripts/deps-docker/Dockerfile

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ ENV     ver_asmcrypto=c72492f4a66e17a0e5dd8ad7874de354f3ccdaa5 \
 # the scp url is regular latin from https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Source+Code+Pro&display=swap
 RUN     mkdir -p /z/dist/no-pk \
         && wget https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/sourcecodepro/v11/HI_SiYsKILxRpg3hIP6sJ7fM7PqlPevW.woff2 -O scp.woff2 \
-        && apk add cmake make g++ git bash npm patch wget tar pigz brotli gzip unzip python3 python3-dev brotli py3-brotli \
+        && apk add cmake make g++ git bash npm patch wget tar pigz brotli gzip unzip python3 python3-dev py3-brotli \
         && rm -f /usr/lib/python3*/EXTERNALLY-MANAGED \
         && wget https://github.com/openpgpjs/asmcrypto.js/archive/$ver_asmcrypto.tar.gz -O asmcrypto.tgz \
         && wget https://github.com/markedjs/marked/archive/v$ver_marked.tar.gz -O marked.tgz \
@@ -143,9 +143,8 @@ RUN     ./genprism.sh $ver_prism
 
 
 # compress
-COPY    brotli.makefile zopfli.makefile /z/dist/
+COPY    zopfli.makefile /z/dist/
 RUN     cd /z/dist \
-        && make -j$(nproc) -f brotli.makefile \
         && make -j$(nproc) -f zopfli.makefile \
         && rm *.makefile \
         && mv no-pk/* . \

scripts/make-sfx.sh

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ help() { exec cat <<'EOF'
 # _____________________________________________________________________
 # web features:
 #
-# `no-cm` saves ~82k by removing easymde/codemirror
+# `no-cm` saves ~89k by removing easymde/codemirror
 #   (the fancy markdown editor)
 #
 # `no-hl` saves ~41k by removing syntax hilighting in the text viewer
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ find -type f -name ._\* | while IFS= read -r f; do cmp <(printf '\x00\x05\x16')
 
 rm -f copyparty/web/deps/*.full.* copyparty/web/dbg-* copyparty/web/Makefile
 
-find copyparty | LC_ALL=C sort | sed -r 's/\.(gz|br)$//;s/$/,/' > have
+find copyparty | LC_ALL=C sort | sed -r 's/\.gz$//;s/$/,/' > have
 cat have | while IFS= read -r x; do
 	grep -qF -- "$x" ../scripts/sfx.ls || {
 		echo "unexpected file: $x"
@@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ sed -r 's/(.*)\.(.*)/\2 \1/' | LC_ALL=C sort |
 sed -r 's/([^ ]*) (.*)/\2.\1/' | grep -vE '/list1?$' > list1
 
 for n in {1..50}; do
-	(grep -vE '\.(gz|br)$' list1; grep -E '\.(gz|br)$' list1 | (shuf||gshuf) ) >list || true
+	(grep -vE '\.gz$' list1; grep -E '\.gz$' list1 | (shuf||gshuf) ) >list || true
 	s=$( (sha1sum||shasum) < list | cut -c-16)
 	grep -q $s "$zdir/h" 2>/dev/null && continue
 	echo $s >> "$zdir/h"