I'm afraid I can't help you with that part. I never used compression (yet) on my apps.
On Feb 26, 6:03 pm, mmoossen <mmoos...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi ntdeaf! > > i know how to setup apache, mod_jk and tomcat. > my question was more in the direction of using mod_deflate on apache > or using the compression capabilities of tomcat. and for which files? > i mean as far as i know ie6 pre sp2 has a bug so it cannot handle > compressed js files, and this is why the generated files are called > cache.html and not cache.js, except the loaded (nocache.js) so i > suppose it is save to compress everything except the nocache.js. > so that is about compression, now what's about cache headers. Etag and > co? here i think that since the generated files names come from MD5, > it is also save to tell the browser to cache the files for ever and > never come back to check them... > any practical experience on production with these topics? > anything else i should take care of when going to production? > > thanks > Michael > > On Feb 26, 5:12 pm, ntdeaf <ntd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I'm using a setup just as you have described, and have found no > > difference with running the webapp native on a tomcat (without apache > > http). It just takes a little more configuration to make the webapp > > known to apache, but that is normal since I'm using mod_jk. > > > If you need any more info on how to set this up, let me know.. > > > NTDeaf > > > On Feb 25, 8:07 pm, mmoossen <mmoos...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > dear all! > > > > i just wanted to know what are the best practices for serving my gwt > > > app in production. > > > i mean, in my case, there will be an apache http server in front of > > > tomcat communicating via mod-jk. > > > so, what are your experiences with compression, setting cache headers, > > > etc? > > > > thanks > > > Michael -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.