On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Aleksander Alekseev < a.aleks...@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
> > I guess since the usual answer for compression was "use what SSL > > provides you for free", it's rather unlikely that someone bothered to > > make a proxy just for that purpose, and really, a proxy is just > > another moving part in your setup: not everyone will be thrilled to > > add that. > > It just doesn't sound like a feature that should be implemented > separately for every single application that uses TCP. Granted TCP proxy > is not the most convenient way to solve a task. Maybe it could be > implemented in OpenVPN Which is another moving part with its own setup and maintenance overhead. > or on Linux TCP/IP stack level. > Yes, but if you want to have both compression and encryption it is crucial to apply compression *before* encryption and I don't see how this can happen with this approach. -- Alex
