That may be true (zip or tar) ... he hasn't been that specific. I'll ask.
These are not MP3s, but a special file format for the device (pretty small files) H. > -----Original Message----- > From: Lewis Sellers [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 4:08 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: 2 Zip or Not 2 Zip > > At 01:26 PM 4/24/2002 -0700, you wrote: > >This particular programmer just has an aversion to running more processes > on > >the client side than necessary. He thinks servers should do all the work. > >So, if the server zips the files, then the client must unzip. He wants to > >avoid that extra process on the client side. We've had a lot of > discussion > >of server vs. client doing most of the processing for this package. He > made > >reference to the idea behind .NET is that the server does all of the > work. I > >don't know if that's true, but to me, in a shared hosting environment, I > >want as much labor pushed off to the client as possible. Because the IT > >guys who run our servers have a policy against installing extra software > on > >the server, this will need to be primarily a client-side package (it > could > >have been done entirely on the server). > > > All things being equal I'd prefer to push as much (cpu) load off onto the > client as possible as well. Doesn't make much sense to put greater loads > on > one (or a few) server machines when it can be distributed amongst a few > thousand client machines. > > Also, if these songs are mp3, there isn't any real benefit from zipping > them as far as the compression algs go. You could use a *simple* TAR alg > (unix'y folk use it all the time) that simply packs the files into one > file. > > I mention this on the offhand chance the programmer's issue is REALLY more > > along the lines of simply not wanting to have to deal with the hassle of > creating ZIP compatible compression/decompression code. > > --min > > ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
