On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 03:03, Slava Bizyayev wrote: > Yesterday I've finally received a long-waiting book > (http://www.modperlbook.org/) written by Stas Bekman and Eric Cholet. In > fact, I don't know who is that Eric Cholet
Eric pre-dates you on this list by a few years. He knows his stuff. > The direct implementation of the example > configuration p.402 is supposed to lead you to about 15% of unsatisfied > clients recently. BTW, it would be curious to see HTTP client logs from > Apache::GzipChain over HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 for dynamically generated and > partially flushed content. And how about SSL over HTTP/1.1? It would > probably help even me to switch to the right handler finally one day. It's a 900 page book! You're talking about, what 7 pages of it? There is going to be some errata, just like there is in every other technical book. The fact is, most people do not compress their content, and those who do probably don't have as much experience with it as you do. I certainly wouldn't know about these details you're speaking of, and the FAQ which you maintain doesn't fully discuss them either. It says that Dynagzip handles them, but not that the others don't. Maybe you should add a more complete comparison. > For some reason Stas forgot even to mention > http://perl.apache.org/docs/tutorials/client/compression/compression.html > which he personally initiated about a year ago when we discussed > Apache::Dynagzip over here. Is there something wrong with that text? You can't expect every page of the mod_perl site to be mentioned in the book. > From my point of view, that was namely Stas who failed in this situation. He > failed to recognize that the absence of information in area that you do not > understand (or don't care to understand) is always better (and much more > practical), than wrong and misleading recommendations. It doesn't sound like the advice in the book is so terrible to me, just not as good as it could be. More to the point, I don't see how you can say this is all Stas' fault. Why not Eric? Why not all the technical reviewers (like me) who didn't know enough or care enough about content compression to suggest changes there? There's no need to be insulting Stas. > My real question to the list subscribers (see subject line) rises from the > fact that I cannot review other parts of this book with full details, and > since this book provides misleading recommendations about content > compression opportunities on mod_perl enabled Apache I'm not sure any more > about other parts... I haven't received my copy yet, but the parts of the earlier version that I reviewed were very good. The book covers a huge amount of ground, and is pretty much the only source of information outside of the on-line guide that discusses many of these real-world issues. It is based on the discussions and discoveries that have taken place on this list over the years, and is a great source of info for anyone who doesn't want to dig through all the old posts to get up to speed. - Perrin
