Re: container accel

2010-10-24 Thread Gagandeep singh
Hi Chirag Sorry for the late response, i have been chillaxing for a while now. The general purpose of accel is to provide a framework for content acceleration. The aim is to be able to speed up web pages without changing their functionality. A web publisher can always rewrite his page to speed

Re: container accel

2010-10-24 Thread Gagandeep singh
Yes, you can apply multiple rewriters to the http response. This is currently made possible by specifying a list of rewirters to be applied through

Re: container accel

2010-10-18 Thread Gagandeep singh
Hi Gerald Sorry for the late response. Currently the only rewriter that accelerates web pages is ProxyingContentRewriter. It proxies all the resources through shindig and concatenates consecutive javascript and css resources. This helps reduce the number of http requests for the webpage. In

Re: container accel

2010-10-18 Thread Chirag Shah
Hi Gagandeep, I was wondering how accel distinguishes itself from other HTTP reverse cache proxies such as squid, apache traffic server, and varnish? Squid and ATS both implement HTTP cache-control extensions such as http-stale-while-revalidate/http-stale-while-error. Currently the only

Re: container accel

2010-10-13 Thread Zhenhua Guo
Thanks! Any document for this new container? Gerald On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:57 PM, John Hjelmstad fa...@google.com wrote: Accel is the container code used for the content acceleration code in Shindig. On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Zhenhua Guo jen...@gmail.com wrote: I am upgrading

Re: container accel

2010-10-13 Thread John Hjelmstad
Not really, it's just a placeholder as far as its configuration is concerned. The new functionality is best understood through reading the code @ this point, since it's quite new. --j On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Zhenhua Guo jen...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks! Any document for this new

Re: container accel

2010-10-13 Thread Gagandeep singh
Hi Zhenhua Like John mentioned, accel container encompasses rewriters and servlets that can be used to accelerate served content. Currently there are some optimizing rewriters like proxying embedded content through shindig host and more are on their way. Maybe once we have some more rewriters,