Phillip Susi wrote:
I decided to do some informal benchmark comparisons between using windows SMBFS and apache/webdav for file transfers. I ended up finding that apache is actually faster at sending files over an SSL connection than a plain connection. I downloaded a ~600 meg test file from the server using windows explorer webfolders, IE, and firefox. Firefox downloads the file in the 4000-5000 KB/s range when using an SSL connection. IE gets over 10,000 KB/s downloading over the secure connection. Both only are able to download at 300-600 KB/s using the non SSL connection though. This is, of course, all done over a 100 Mbps ethernet network that is minimally loaded, and I repeated the test a few times, clearing the browsers caches each time.
Did you restart Apache too, to clear the memory cache of the OS? Joost
